h.l. mencken, who brought to my mind his great "on the american language" book. what do you think h.l. mencken would have made of, you know, our current situation? would he have just seen it as another american linguistic wave that we have always been going through? john: he had a bifurcated view so he loved the vernacular and touted it with detail and love, a lot of things he writes are things we would never know if he hadn't mentioned them. but he was also somebody who crafted language very intensely. for example, the american mercury, he has dozens and dozens of people writing for it, it all sounds exactly like him because he changed the prose. he had a sense of the way one was to write, especially. and also speak. in public. and so i think it -- what would he do in terms of, i'm thinking on the fly, listening to donald trump make a speech? he wouldn't like that. he would take down the vernacularisms and say here's a sign of somebody who grew up in the 1950's in queens saying certain things. but he would think trump is supposed to keep that to when he's in private. that was the menck

h.l. mencken who defined the puritanism as the sneaking suspicion that somebody somewhere is having fun, bute seen from the archeology, as we've seen from the probate records and from existing examples, they all colors. they had clothes purple with green of red. they loved showy pieces of ceramic. well, pins have been found. a lot of the sites, bits of silk just like us. many of them were fashion conscious and they wanted some of the latest fashions. yeah, sorry. the pictures are a little tack, but this piece here is a wonderful little bronze pestle. although most people go in and they say because of its diminutive size, they ask is a like a little chess, you know, because it looks like a little chessmen. but this a handle the pestle for use with a mortar, grinding spices, herbs, fruit nuts, other food items or medicine is made of bronze. it broken at one end, suggesting a missing lower section down here, a large metal mortar with a winslow family provenance is in the collections of pilgrim, mortar and pestle is appear in many inventories. william of 16 3033 lists one small brass mortar pest

h.l. mencken, who brought to my mind his great "on the american language" book. what do you think h.l. mencken would have made of, you know, our current situation? would he have just seen it as another american linguistic wave that we have always been going through? john: he had a bifurcated view so he loved the vernacular and touted it with detail and love, a lot of things he writes are things we would never know if he hadn't mentioned them. but he was also somebody who crafted language very intensely. for example, the american mercury, he has dozens and dozens of people writing for it, it all sounds exactly like him because he changed the prose. he had a sense of the way one was to write, especially. and also speak. in public. and so i think it -- what would he do in terms of, i'm thinking on the fly, listening to donald trump make a speech? he wouldn't like that. he would take down the vernacularisms and say here's a sign of somebody who grew up in the 1950's in queens saying certain things. but he would think trump is supposed to keep that to when he's in private. that was the menck