Alternative Skills Names in the Eighteenth Century?

[Gundamentalist]

I'm trying to reimagine the basic CoC skill list in C18 terms.

For instance Fast Talk becomes Bambozzle; Read becomes Cipher. Biology and Geology folded in Natural History; Astronomy, Chemistry and Physics folded in Natural Philosophy. But that's as far as I've got.

Can I call on the knowledge of BRP Central to supply more? Or at least point me in the direction of a freely available C18 thesaurus?

[USAFguy]

I suspect the terms you seek are heavily dependent upon locale. For example, I doubt 'bamboozle' applies to London. 'Fallen Flower', harlotry, 'woman of easy virtue' or some other nonsense would work for a certain profession of the Old West.

[Sutekh]

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18Guide.pdf

[Sutekh]

If your looking for colonial usage you could see if your local library had "Colonial American English, a glossary : words and phrases found in colonial writing, now archaic, obscure, obsolete, or whose meanings have changed" by Richard M. Lederer, Jr.

[rust]

'Fallen Flower', harlotry, 'woman of easy virtue' or some other nonsense would work for a certain profession of the Old West.

Also "soiled dove" or "horizontal singer", according to GURPS Old West.

[Sutekh]

18th century cant

http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/cant/

[Gundamentalist]

Thanks for the links Sutekh, most excellent!