# Nunnery! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Jun 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. --- ### m.driussi *25 Jun 1997, 23:11* Reply: Item #0419205 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Rory, Welcome! Interesting, re: nunnery. (Quick! Let's look in the bound OED before alga has a chance to dazzle us with her CD-ROM version . . . here we go, first citation for use as "house of ill fame," 1593.) Well it certainly makes sense, what with Hamlet acting wiggy and all (anachronistic as it might be for the Dane of an earlier day speaking in the hip-hop of the moment). It also plays "ring around the rosey" with Nutria's naughty-nun witches (nun-so-naughty). Bravo! =mantis= ---