weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 3 days agoAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialimagemessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up11.23Karrow-down148
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minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nought#Noun
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoYes, that was the intended play on words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoWas it? I’ve never heard that. What are you basing that on?
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours 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.
*newt btw.
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.