Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 18:56:49 -0400

From: Margaret Ronkin ronkinm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUSUN.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: More Monkey business for Lynne



I forgot to mention that (c. 1879) "monkey" was also a term

of real or affected displeasure and, especially, endearment (and still

is; it's what my own parents called me). Farmer and Henley (1965:334)

give this example from Ruskin's _Letter to Young Girls_:



"Serve the poor, but, for your lives, you little monkeys,

don't preach to them."



Maggie



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