[ SECRET POST #2330 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2330 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What DOES it mean? I always wondered about that in Black Beauty.

[(Anonymous)]

It's the author choosing not to name a real place (because people living there might disagree with the portrayal) or make up a fictional one (because people might see the story as unrealistic).

[(Anonymous)]

Also, it's probably Yorkshire. Nuff said.

Explanation

[lunabee34]

This is a convention that I am pretty sure derives from Victorian magazines and newspapers in which they wanted to print material about real people and real places without opening themselves up to legal or other censure from those people. So you could just print "Viscount F_____" and everybody knew who you meant but you had plausible deniability about the identity of the person you were gossiping about. The convention of redacting names and places was then adopted by novelists.