Equivalent of "cool" in Victorian England

[nq:1]Okay, so a kid climbs into an attic and likes it because it's an unusual-looking and quiet place, away from it all. I would say "Hey, this is a cool place!" What would an English kid in the late Victorian Era say?[/nq]
"It was a dark and stormy night .."

Michael West

[nq:1]"It was a dark and stormy night .."[/nq]
You're a funny man. =P

[nq:2]Okay, so a kid climbs into an attic and likes ... would an English kid in the late Victorian Era say?[/nq]
"Smashing"
or
"Brilliant" ?
My guess because many Victorian expressions survive in Ireland, but not in the UK anymore.

[nq:1]"Smashing"[/nq]
Sounds too Fifties/Sixties.
[nq:1]or "Brilliant" ?[/nq]
Sounds too Seventies/Eighties.
"Wizard!" and "spiffing!", meanwhile, would sound too Forties, while "fab!" and "gear!" would sound too Sixties. (I can't remember what stereotypical kids said in the early Nineties before "cool" took over.)
[nq:1]My guess because many Victorian expressions survive in Ir

[nq:1]"Smashing" or "Brilliant" ?[/nq]
Hmm...Wouldn't either of these words be overstating it a bit? I think the word I want would be more subtle. We are talking about an attic, after all. ;-)
Kaleb

[nq:1]Okay, so a kid climbs into an attic and likes it because it's an unusual-looking and quiet place, away from it all. I would say "Hey, this is a cool place!" What would an English kid in the late Victorian Era say?[/nq]
Wizard? Dandy?

Now that subject line should bring Richard Fontana out of the woodwork.

Bait the hook.

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[nq:2]"It was a dark and stormy night .."[/nq]
[nq:1]You're a funny man. =P[/nq]
I get mixed reviews. Tony Cooper is funnier than I am.
Michael West

[nq:1]Okay, so a kid climbs into an attic and likes it because it's an unusual-looking and quiet place, away from it all. I would say "Hey, this is a cool place!"[/nq]
You mean "very good," right? Nothing about temperature. Sounds obvious, but you have to go back to basics here.
[nq:1]What would an English kid in the late Victorian Era say?[/nq]
What social class? I don't think there w

[nq:2]"Smashing" or "Brilliant" ?[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmm...Wouldn't either of these words be overstating it a bit? I think the word I want would be more subtle. We are talking about an attic, after all. ;-)[/nq]
'Victorian' covers quite a long time, you know. If it's late Victorian, you might try "I say! This is a bit of all right!"

Katy Jennison
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