weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up1483arrow-down121
arrow-up1462arrow-down1external-linkAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialweird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square183fedilink
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nought#Noun
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoYes, that was the intended play on words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWas it? I’ve never heard that. What are you basing that on?
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI’m basing that on it being the joke I was trying to make, i.e. nought being used for 0 and sharing some similarity with the word newt from the original line in the movie.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nought#Noun
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
Yes, that was the intended play on words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Was it? I’ve never heard that. What are you basing that on?
I’m basing that on it being the joke I was trying to make, i.e. nought being used for 0 and sharing some similarity with the word newt from the original line in the movie.