Just a quick question, figured I'd ask it here as I think you need to have some experience with older texts to be sure of how to use this phrase right.
If my character is asking, "Are you related to so-and-so, late of Made Up Place?" is she saying that so-and-so used to live there, or died there, or something else? Should it be "lately of Made Up Place" instead?
I'm making a point in this fantasy novel of there being different dialects depending on where someone is from and what their class is. This character is upper class and I'm working to polish her voice to make it sound very upper crust.
If my character is asking, "Are you related to so-and-so, late of Made Up Place?" is she saying that so-and-so used to live there, or died there, or something else? Should it be "lately of Made Up Place" instead?
I'm making a point in this fantasy novel of there being different dialects depending on where someone is from and what their class is. This character is upper class and I'm working to polish her voice to make it sound very upper crust.