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Heh.
Canon.
One historical note re. Chris’s column: streets in cities appear, disappear, and get renamed all the time, so changing a street name is realistic; it makes a city feel alive.
If 5-year-old me hadn’t been raised by an elderly aunt familiar only with older British… 2)
…usage, "Slut Street" would never have been named as such.
To us, nowadays, it's a pejorative with a sexual connotation. Back then, in that place, it was a less polite way of saying "slattern." That is, a dirty person with slovenly habits. Meaning: working poor.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021
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…and no more than that (there were all sorts of names, nasty and otherwise, for prostitutes). What I MEANT was that many of the working drudges of Waterdeep (who cooked and cleaned homes and privies, and did laundry, and carried away garbage, all belonging to… 4)
…other folks who'd pay them, lived in small rented upper rooms along Slut Street, and over time the street had acquired a fitting name ("Anathae lives where all the other sluts do, along Slut Street. She's southfront, two floors above Uldro's Smoked Fish").#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021
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Interestingly, a woman only three years younger than I am, born in Canada, ONLY knew “slut” with a sexual connotation, so the widespread change in meaning hadn’t caught up to my elderly aunt, and therefore me. I should have changed it when turning over the… 6)
…Waterdeep lore to TSR back in 1986, but was too busy finding all the papers and photocopying them and getting them couriered or mailed and keeping up with specific lore requests, at the time.
Perfect example of a change that should have been made. Not out of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021
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…prudery, but because it conveys the wrong impression, and can offend, but for no good story reason.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2021