I always find it hard to take seriously historical dramatisations (like BBC2's Gunpowder, Treason and Plot).
Remember the BlackAdder series with Rowan Atkinson?
It must be very difficult for scriptwriters in transcribing Old English into present-day parlance not to introduce unintentional humour.
Old English had different sentence construction (or syntax, for those people whose letters are published in The Times) and the same words could have several spellings.
A suitable (play on words with punch line) joke occurred to me.
If someone asks you which King of England had a club foot, you could always reply, "I think it was the King of Clubs" (James I, actually).
-Anthony Andrews, Brighton
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