[SCA-AE] The use of "Troll"

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:14 PM -0500 McAndrew-Schwoegl 
<schwoegl at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> This conversation does tend to resurface every few years.
>
> While I have no problem with the use of the term Troll.
> I believe that correct term would be:
>
> Porter.
> n. Chiefly British.
> One in charge of a gate or door.
> [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin portarius, from Latin
> porta, gate
>
> Remus Fletcher

Porter is good. Tolner actually isn't bad (meaning a toll taker), but I 
like the word it's a variant on -- toller. Makes a nice rhyme:

A dollar for the toller

(FWIW, I also like the whimsy value of "troll" -- it shakes me up much less 
that the ever growing list of -crats)

toodles, margaret

toodles, margaret