[Sca-cooks] Alternate title

[Johnna Holloway]

Account keepers at colleges were bursars. it goes along with butlers and 
stewards.

Johnnae

Ysabeau wrote:
> I just typed an email and found myself wondering the same thing...so I
> just called that person "gatekeeper". We call it the gate in Ansteorra
> (having managed to do away with troll), so they would be gatekeeper,
> right?
>
> Ysabeau
>
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>> --On Monday, April 30, 2007 4:12 PM -0400 Elaine Koogler
>> <kiridono at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  I know we discussed this in the past, but I didn't keep the message.  Does
>>> anyone have any suggestions for an alternate title for the person who
>>> checks people in to an SCA event.  Our person uses the term "troll" which
>>> is beginning to grate on my nerves...almost as badly as
>>> "feastocrat"...though at least troll is a real word, and one that was
>>> probably used in period, though not for this purpose.
>> Why not Porter? According to the OED, the usage dates back to at least 1300
>> with the definition "    1. a. A gatekeeper, esp. at the entrance of a
>> fortified town or castle; a doorkeeper; (now) esp. an employee in charge of
>> the entrance of a hotel, block of flats, college, or other large building. "
>>
>> toodles, margaret