Is that not different though? I thought the archaicism was using 'shew' for 'show' itself, not using 'shew' as the past tense of 'show'.From Stack Exchange' English Language site it seems that Norfolk dilect might still use shew.
Is the use of 'shew' and 'glew' as the past tense of 'show' and 'glow' commonplace in some areas?
A friend informed me recently that in some areas of England (he named Suffolk) it is relatively common to find 'incorrect' past tenses being used. His examples were: 'I shew him', instead of 'I sh...english.stackexchange.com
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Things that look like alternate history but aren't
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Some of the answers and comments there do refer to the present tense use of shew, although I agree they are not dated as definitely as the past tense useage.
Also using shew as the past tense is also an archaicism.
LSCatilina
Never Forget Avaricon
- Location
- Teuta Albigas - Rutenoi - Keltika
- Pronouns
- ēs/xsi
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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- Banned from the forum
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- He/Him
America's first Chinese-American on a major Presidential ticket, Senator Xi Jinping (D-IA) remains popular in his home state despite spending most of the last three years globetrotting as President Lagarde's de facto foreign policy spokesman...
LSCatilina
Never Forget Avaricon
- Location
- Teuta Albigas - Rutenoi - Keltika
- Pronouns
- ēs/xsi
What's the context of the picture?
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
- Pronouns
- He/Him
A visit in 2012--the "welcome back" is in reference to his time in Iowa as a university student.
Major Crimson
Here occasionally and quietly
Not in shocklingly good taste and apologies if its already been posted but this from Tennessee's referendum to officially ban all forms of indentured servitude in the state constitution looks like its from a particularly grim/lazy CSA TL.
The United States Coast Guard flag just screams AH, especially in a non-obviously-naval context. This photo from 1986 is a great example, the WTC still being there also (sadly) lends an element of a changed, or at least vanished world.
Erfurt latrine disaster - Wikipedia
Which I thought was a spoof when I first heard about it and then sounds like something went horribly wrong with the sewage works at a Red Army base during the occupation of Germany
The real place of Texas City sounds like the planned bottom-up capital of an independent Texas.
As US cities that look like they're from an alternate TL, Santa Fe gives off interesting vibes of "Native Americans industrialize on their own terms".
A flag probably based on this was used in the TV series Jericho, which might well be honorary alternate history by now.The United States Coast Guard flag just screams AH, especially in a non-obviously-naval context. This photo from 1986 is a great example, the WTC still being there also (sadly) lends an element of a changed, or at least vanished world.
Jericho (2006 TV series) - Wikipedia
frittering
the tropic of cancer answered, drink the quicksand
- Location
- Vincent Hallinan Country
- Pronouns
- an indescribable void
In this TL, is the state government forced to relocate by the Texas City disaster or is that butterflied away?
British soldiers defending a position in North Belfast during the Easter Rising, against Irish republican rebels supported by the Carthaginian International Volunteer Brigade.
The actual origin of this picture is doubly confusing
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Love you didn’t spot the random Noam Chomsky just looking around.
Sort of mitigate against being 1916 I guess!
theflyingmgoose
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I prefer former Sino-Soviet War refugee Senator Jim Xi (Libertarian-AK) but that also works
- Location
- Derbyshire
Alternatively 'King Charles III bestowing awards on representatives from the British Overseas Territory of Jeju.'
- Location
- Arlington, Virginia
Isn’t George a little young?The final details for the personal union between the royal houses of Britain and Korea being ironed out.
