On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 LoLehmann@aol.com wrote: > In the '50s, Carl Barks wrote a Disney Comic called The Golden Fleece, where > Scrooge & family went to Greece and met all sorts of mythological creatures. > Among them were harpies, but a Disney editor renamed them "larkies" because > harpies was a slang word for prostitute. > > Nobody on the Disney Comics mailing list recalls having heard the name harpy > used in such a sense. What about you ? Kathy ? That was a new term to me, too (except in the sense of a nagging woman), until I checked the 1948 _American Thesaurus of Slang_, which lists "harpie" as a synonym for "slut." Katherine Harper Department of English Bowling Green State University Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/ - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca