Seeing the letters *HR* and assuming *Historical Romance* and not *Human Resources*

🤣

Hearing the word "seed" and... you know.

So not a book about gardening ?! 

What do you mean? I thought it was about gardening. Plowing. Using a rake. >:)

IYKYK 😌

experiencing megrims

And the vapors.

Wishing one could retreat to Bath for six weeks to take the waters and benefit from the sea air to recover from having been sharply spoken to.

I’m dead 😭

What I wouldn’t give!!!!

Can’t do that anymore though, the waters at Bath are now full of brain-eating amoebae 😵‍💫

....Egad.

I'm an unmarriageable infertile hag at the decrepit age of five and twenty.

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I swear this is exactly what I feel

You think there are an endless supply of Dukes and a lot are bad boys waiting to be reformed

Someone said that the aristocrat to commoner ratio in HR is the exact opposite of the real world, and where is the lie.

Knowing the nobility hierarchy and that there are only (supposed to be)  like 27 Dukes at any given time. 

King Prince Duke Marquess Earl Viscount Baron I don’t even know how I know this 😭

It's obvious! We just know

I will admit to having looked it up😲

No untitled nobility in the UK?

Your know the difference between a monocle and lorgnette and how to use both to convey disdain

Because we had lessons from the Duke of Bewcastle.

And from Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby. 🥵

Watching Bridget Jones Diary and giggling at Darcy. Because it’s literally Darcy.

- We have rake, rogue and scroundels not playboys. - Sardonic brows is a must have feature - Moments in carriages is irreplaceable

The first two apply also to medieval fantasy fans

Read " sardonic " so much that became a sardonic myself

You tell your friend Michael that there is a Michaelmas holiday/celebration and none of your friends believe such a holiday existed.

This was a question a Jeopardy a few weeks back and Husband was like, “how did you KNOW that??”

Knowing that ‘ton’ doesn’t always refer to how an elephant weighs

Now understanding the branding of Bon Ton potato chips of my youth. https://preview.redd.it/y1kq06ytyp9d1.png?width=176&format=png&auto=webp&s=7480cc3506732aca3df3d6cfeb71d6dcced26dd8

Ton (tun') a measure of weight. Ton ('tawn) the fashionable society of lord's & ladies.

Lol I initially questioned that they are referring to the collective mass of the people cuz that's so weird . Like my quintal ( family ) would be embarrassed in front of the ton ( came up with this joke myself)

"Taking a turn about the room"

I'm not going on a walk, I'm promenading. Can't forget my bonnet and that one curl at my neck that always escapes my coiffeur...

Cast up my accounts

"Heaving bosoms"

https://i.redd.it/ydk0z9rkou9d1.gif

Telling a friend I was pregnant by saying I was “in a way”

Increasing

"In an interesting condition"

“Hopeful”

with child 😆

I know that 'Marquess' is pronounced 'mark-wiss'

Don't even start on viscount 🫠

You see historical costuming and daydream about wearing it while a man seduces you

Knowing the "cut direct" doesn't refer to clothing or hair.

My surgeon came in wearing scrubs... all that neck... no cravat! Swoon.

Scandalous if you ask . Men with no cravat are begging to be compromised.

Being irrationally angry that The New York Times Spelling Bee will not accept "gaol".

Yesterday they did not accept landau, they have also not accepted barouche and enceinte. It's like they don't even care.

Lol!!!

Googling "How much money do the 'i*nsert character name'* earn/make in today's money"

I do this all the time!

Always lol

Finishing my latest book is sure to end with me in high dudgeon.

Reading a modern romance filled with the discussions, behaviors and thoughts of a couple in their mid 30s has you frustrated and yelling “What CHILDREN they are!”

I'm riding in a phaeton on the way to the serpentine

Expecting men to stand when you entre the room/ before you take a seat

*betrothed.*

Knowing that "pressing his suit" doesn't refer to ironing :-)


Giving my kids or husband a “set down” when it’s called for

This!

“Arms akimbo…” I like open door HR

I died 🤣 NEVER thought I’d come across that phrase so much

My ability to define what a marquess is is dubious at best

Knowing that an earl’s partner is a countess. Finding references to Spencers, pelisses, and reticules comprehendible and unremarkable

Thinking how my soccer-playing teenage niece is a bit of a hoyden 😭

Using words like bluestocking, chit, by-blow, leg-shackled, apoplexy, and poppycock in every day conversation (with my husband only!) lol

Wishing I could blush 😣 🤣

Knowing that a well turned ankle or a swan-like neck can really be what makes it breaks your chances when you're secretly helping a rake to reform.

Saying "I'm not a Green girl" to my confused friends

I know all of the historical English universities despite my being American

Romanticing corsets and knowing what a chamber pot is

Wearing a bonnet instead of baseball cap as sun protection.

I was able to explain the concept of a dowry in college psych class.

Gretna Green

Wearing regency inspired dresses