To answer your unstated question: YES, Talk Like Jane Austen Day really exists, and I did not make it up.
First, I’ll give my personal tips to help you get ready for this extremely important holiday, then a nice Talk Like Jane Austen Day button and bookmark for you to use, and then a few helpful links to more resources on Talk Like Jane Austen Day.
5 Tips for Talk Like Jane Austen Day
1. Use words that are time appropriate. A few of my favorite words used by Jane Austen are scrupulous, supposition, unreserved, amiable, inclination, and indulgence. One of the best ways to figure out how to talk like Jane Austen is to read her novels or watch the movies.
2. Avoid contractions. It’s a foolproof way to sound old-fashioned and more refined.
3. Use a British accent. I am terrible at this, but I will do my best. Everything is better with a British accent.
4. Because Talk Like Jane Austen Day is just one day before Halloween, I think it’s completely appropriate to wear a Regency costume. One of these days, I will have to make myself one.
5. The most essential element of Talk Like Jane Austen Day, as I said in my Ignite Phoenix presentation, is to practice rhetoric: to talk like Jane, you need to be good at arguing!
Talk Like Jane Austen Day Freebies:
Here is a button that you can share on your website, blog, Facebook page, or anywhere else you might desire:
Just save it to your computer, and then use it however you’d like.
And a Talk Like Jane Austen Day bookmark for you to download:
If you want either file in a higher resolution, right click and choose “Open image in new tab” and then click “Save.”
Talk Like Jane Austen Day Websites and Links
- Visit the official Talk Like Jane Austen Facebook Page
- Stop by the Talk Like Jane Austen website; it has a page of words to use and other tips.
- Learn 10 Awesome Austenite Words to help you talk like Jane Austen
- Watch Emma Thompson Pretending to be Jane Austen and read other tips
Visit my other Jane Austen pages:
