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Miss Nancy

Apr. 16th, 2013 11:41 am
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Talking about phrases having longer histories than one might suppose, I've just come across "Miss Nancy"- meaning "Nancy Boy"- a usage I'd have guessed was 20th century- in Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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