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desperanceOkay. If I go to a pub for a pint, there are generally two ways it might arrive: in a tall smooth glass, or else - more rarely, these days - in a dimpled glass tankard with a handle. Which I would call a pint mug, because a tankard in a pub means some regular's personal pewter mug that he keeps behind the bar there. Yes?
But this is the nineteen-forties, and she is a well-bred young woman who used to go into pubs with her husband while he was alive, because she liked to be with him and see him amongst his man-friends. So: would she have called it a mug, was that current even then? Or would it have been a tankard to her? Or something else? Certainly it would have been the standard glass that a pint would come in, these tall smooth ones are a more recent innovation, but I do not know how they were known in those days.
And I did not know when I started writing this book, that these would be the questions that I stumbled over. Life. Fiction. Why can't I just make it up...?
But this is the nineteen-forties, and she is a well-bred young woman who used to go into pubs with her husband while he was alive, because she liked to be with him and see him amongst his man-friends. So: would she have called it a mug, was that current even then? Or would it have been a tankard to her? Or something else? Certainly it would have been the standard glass that a pint would come in, these tall smooth ones are a more recent innovation, but I do not know how they were known in those days.
And I did not know when I started writing this book, that these would be the questions that I stumbled over. Life. Fiction. Why can't I just make it up...?