Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:46:02 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Gunsel & Gooseberry Lay
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 05/20/02 04:31PM

 [Snippage occurs]
>they are not entirely analogous.  "Punk" has very specific meanings in =
several
>social subsets. ("Punk" entered the vocabulary in the 20th century as a =
prison
>term for a boy used for sex; "gunsel" meant the same thing before mystery
>writers mistakenly used it to mean a gunman.)

 [more snippage]

'twas Dashiell Hammet, late of Maryland, who used gunsel purposely in such =
a manner.
See: http://www.miskatonic.org/gooseberry.html

mjw