The language from British India would be almost incomprehensible today, yet is was considered English - newspapers were written in it and books published.

For instance a policeman might give you a drub with his lathy - a beating with his baton.

The fad for wearing Crimplene was strange - for months - maybe years, no one would buy anything else, and then suddenly it was unsellable at any price. Shops went out of business sales managers were sacked - people emptied their wardrobes, threw all the Crimplene away. It is probably visible as a layer in the rubbish dumps - waiting to be used a dating evidence in thousands of years - it probably will not have decomposed, just consolidated.

Anne