Timeline for What is the origin of the phrase "Into thin air"
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| Mar 9 at 5:49 | comment | added | Peter | @DaleM, I wasn't specifically referring to smog. Wood fires can certainly create "thick air" indoors, especially as chimneys would not have been universal in Shakespeare's time. | |
| Mar 9 at 5:40 | comment | added | Dale M | @Peter in 1500 London was home to about 50,000 people as opposed to 5 million in 1900. That’s not enough fires no matter what they’re burning to make smog. | |
| Mar 9 at 5:38 | comment | added | Dale M | @Elliot London wasn’t particularly foggy in Shakespeare’s day, nor is it unusually foggy now. The fogs were primarily a result of coal fired heating and cooking in the nineteenth and early 20th century. | |
| Mar 9 at 5:37 | comment | added | Peter | Wood smoke can make the air quite thick enough. | |
| Mar 9 at 5:05 | comment | added | Elliot | In Shakespeare's day the were living in London. All the fog you need. | |
| Jan 27 at 22:47 | comment | added | Peter Jennings | Possibly, but did they have thick fogs in Shakespeare's day? I thought that was a phenomenon of coal burning Victorian times. But then I suppose we've always had fogs of various densities naturally , just not smoke enhanced ones. | |
| Jan 27 at 21:14 | history | answered | Dale M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |