Talk:Pleading the belly

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And the kid?

Does anyone have a source for what happens to the children when their mothers are executed? Darkfrog24 23:28, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the kid was in any harm depending on how you look at it. I look on the bright side. I believe Anne's dad came for them both. Or at least I want to believe that. sojmeone in the world has to know! Maybe a family member? I don't know, but we are studying this in our class.I know the most, but that doesn't mean anything.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.220.30.114 (talk) 21:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Famous/infamous/notorious

This article has made reference for a while to "The famous female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read"
I changed the adjective here to 'notorious', as being well-known for a bad reason is 'notorious', not 'famous'. This was undone, with the summary 'ce' If this means copy-edit, then it wasn’t; changing a term to its polar opposite isn’t simply correcting for grammar, spelling, readability, or layout, and the etiquette there requires that if your copyediting is undone, you should start a discussion before reinstating it.
As for the point at issue, 'famous' is the wrong adjective to use for two pirates facing the gallows: 'Famous' is being celebrated in fame (ie. much talked about, chiefly in good sense), renowned, while being of ill fame or repute, and with unfavourable connotations, such as of a criminal, is 'infamous' or 'notorious'.
In any event, adjectives like 'famous' (or 'notorious') are peacock phrasing, so if we aren’t to have the correct term we are better off without either. Swanny18 (talk) 23:43, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As to "if we aren’t to have the correct term we are better off without either", I agree. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:23, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]