I read a lot of Eng. Lit as where I picked that up and can lapse into mid-19th cent English (Dickens, Post, etc) or American - the American part from reading everything that Mark Twain wrote. I would entertain the folks with Mark Twain quotes when certain occasions called for it.
You are so well read Skydancer.
Getting late here in KC.
Going to be on this good news.
Good luck in the past *wink*
And Congratulations to OZ's Queen that she has a Country again. And Most Importantly, the U.K. people as well.
(Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
Leni