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Ron Hornsby wrote: > > I am grateful to Beth Williamson et al for the information on the actual > name > of the famous jazz player. However, my original enquiry concerned a > literary > source for the term "felonious monk". Since no one has offered one, > I suppose that I must conclude that this also is a myth. (Which is not to > say that > the adjectival half never applied to any real monk!) I don't know whether there were any "felonious monks" around when Thelonious' mother came up with his name but, if she had found herself in a Greek Orthodox church, she might as well have heard a priest call at a monk: "felonio, monk!" i.e. "get my cope, monk". Regards, Efthimios %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%