Thursday 10 April 1662

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• N Mary K McIntyre on Mon 11 Apr 2005, 03:07pm

  “I cannot down with their dull company…”

  Sorry to be so tardy w/my $0.02, but it was a v busy week. There is a variant on this usage in current urban speak: “I’m down with that,” i.e. to agree with another’s statement or proposal.

  It’s long been observed that regional or dialectical speech in Canada and the US resembles 16th-18th c BritSpeak. This is a kind of cool example, yes?

• N language hat on Mon 11 Apr 2005, 04:52pm

  Not a “variant” but a coincidental similarity.
  Still, a fun coincidence, as long as we don’t let it influence our interpretation of Pepys’ usage (which still seems mysterious to me).

• N Mary K McIntyre on Mon 11 Apr 2005, 05:30pm

  L Hat, we may have to take this into another room… but why just a coincidence?

• N language hat on Tue 12 Apr 2005, 02:02am

  There’s no plausible connection between a late-20th-century usage and a rare 17th-century one.

• N vicenzo on Tue 12 Apr 2005, 04:15am

  Windsor did the correct move by coming to the Horses mouth as Penn was the Admiral who removed Jamaica from Spanish Care.”…he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now going…”

  [Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655.]

  http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/03/20/index.php
  I’m under the impression that Capt Batten was also on this hunt back ‘55
  

• N Wim van der Meij on Tue 12 Apr 2005, 09:55am

  - Lord Windsor -
  The link does not seem to work; so I am putting Warrington’s remark here: “Thomas Windsor, Baron Windsor, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire; advanced to the earldom of Plymouth, 1682: ob. 1687.”

• N john lauer on Wed 13 Apr 2005, 02:19am

  Windsor, Thomas (7th Baron Windsor)

  http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/4067.php