# Digest urth.v006.n005 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *03 Dec 1997, 12:25* > At 04:02 AM 12/3/97 -0800, you wrote: > > Re: Solange as stereotypical name for a maid. Onomasticly or > otherwise--do you have any examples or sources? (I've looked OED and > Latin.) You wouldn't find it in the dictionary. At one time in my life, however, I was quite interested in Restoration plays, French farce, comic opera etc. There is always a maid in these plays, she is always French, and her name is always something like Marie, Fifi or Solange. Two syllables and easy for her aristocratic mistress to scream. It's the part parodied in La Cage au Folles, if you remember that. -alga- ---