Please may I, as OP, point out that this thread is not about misuse of language, shades of meaning, or whatever ~~ there are other threads aplenty for that.

So please be so good as to stick to the point of this thread, which is literary inaccuracies. ~~ see title above.

If you prefer to discuss semantics, definitions, &c, please start a thread of your own or refresh one of the countless already on the forum; and be so good as not to hijack mine.

~M~

Let's see if anyone will take a blind bit of notice. Ha!