[PW] Neville, a gentleman's name

[sylvia ryals]

(DISCLAIMER: Just because I might seem nerded out on
name derivations and historical spelling and
punctuation changes doesn't mean I'm pedantic.)

"I am trying to track down a reference by Thomas
Pynchon on page 438 of
"Mason & Dixon" to a letter in "Gentlemen's (sic?)
Magazine" regarding
 the promotion of Neville Maskelyne to H.M. Astronomer
. . ." 

I believe the Norman Conquest was responsible for
bringing the name Neville to the British Isles where
it eventually became (unevenly) Anglicized to Nevil.

A gentleman's gentleman is a valet, of course.  Since
things for children are "children's" and the Ladies'
Home Journal isn't "Lady's" , why would Gentlemen's
Magazine be "Gentlemen's (sic?) Magazine?"

Sylvia, in need of clues


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