For the dyslexic - who abhor drugs for such - I hear there is a business in
employing both skullery men and women. When either letters or words are
twisted, they are right there to make appropriate and ordered adjustments
within the client's skull - feathers applied to the eyelid, a little warm
was across the eye balls, a flat stick under the twisted tongue - a little
skull vibration and all becomes letter perfect.
I know, these folks often get accused of skullduggery - but, short of other
organic cures, I am all for it.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> I think the class identification has to be prior, and the pejorative
> senses attached to it. So, the scullery is filthy, as there weren't
> many resources for her to be otherwise and her work was filthy;
> sexually loose because her virtue had little social or economic value
> and loss of same wasn't as likely to invalidate her for marriage as
> it would have a girl in the doweried classes.
>
> At 07:27 PM 8/30/2007, you wrote:
>>> More complex than that. Slut signidied a scullery maid, so slut's
>>> wool would be what a bad housekeeper didn't sweep up.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> Well sometimes, though I'm not sure this was ever the predominant
>> meaning, and "slut" usually had (at the best) a negative
>> connotation. Here's a list of various synonyms found in John
>> Florio's _A World of Words_ in 1598:
>>
>> a pisse-kitchin, alwaies cowring by the fire: an idle flurt, a
>> driggle-draggle, a durtie slut: one that will beray hirselfe.
>> a durtie draggletaile, a filthie slut, a dunghill queane. Also dung.
>> a scarffe. Also any filth, trash, rabble, matter, or stuffe.
>> Also a flurt, a slut, a baggage, a trull, a minxe, a gill, a
>> gickesie, a queane.
>> a pussell, a pugge, a paltry wench, a driggle-draggle, a slut, a
>> whore, a flurt, a strumpet, a gixie, a minxe.
>> a slut, a flurt, a piskitching, a filth, a gixie, a gill, a
>> minxe. Also the chiefest skold in a parish, an idle proud huswife.
>> to play the idle flurt, trull, slut or whore, to braule, chide or skold.
>> a slut, a driggle-draggle, a piskitching, a flurting drudge.
>> a filthie, sluttish slut.
>> a fishing rod. Also a flurt, a slut, a driggledraggle.
>>
>> Retro-Rodent
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