what comes from browsing books I've left in my mother's house

[tempestsarekind]

According to Nicholas Orme in Medieval Children, "faunt" is a medieval word for "infant." Which, it occurs to me, means that Little Lord Fauntleroy is really redundant: it basically boils down to "little lord infant king."

I don't really know what to do with this fact.

Comments

[liseuse]

I am really glad that I didn't know that before I read Little Lord Fauntleroy because I would never ever have read it. I mean, it's the impression I was entirely left with, but I would just never have picked it up.

[tempestsarekind]

I can totally see that! It's like a double warning about the character!

[ajodasso]

Oh dear.

[tempestsarekind]

Exactly! It's just so on-the-nose.