Re: Joining FoRK?

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:36:38 +0200 (MET DST)

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>consider that the Old English word "gurle" (girl) originally referred
>to a young person of either gender; this was sufficiently ambiguous
>that boy came into more common use (etymology, anyone?)

Sure. From Old French "buie" or "boie" which meant chain. A boy was
someone who was chained i.e, a servant or possibly slave in England
after the Norman conquest (slavery had long since disappeared in
France).

Rob.

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