Shakespeare's words that failed to catch on - QI: Immortal Bard - Shakespeare Unlocked - BBC Two
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qj6tc Stephen Fry asks panellists Sue Perkins, Bill Bailey and David Mitchell about words which first appeared in Shakespeare's plays, with much hilarity and pun making.
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David looks so at ease in his 16th century nobleman's outfit
Well he did use to dress up as one when he was a child...
I think Bill Bailey fits in the best in his Elizabethan outfit
I'm pretty sure Fry made this dress code so he could relive his part of Blackadder
Interesting to see David Mitchell in Elizabethan attire after recently seeing him as Shakespeare in "Upstart Crow" (2016-2018) 6 years later.
Funny to watch this back after seeing David Mitchell in Upstart Crow playing William Shakespeare... Especially since they make a lot of fun about his use of words and sentences...
When Alan said 'I've got a soltery quatch at the moment' I thought the klaxon was going to go off with 'GENITALS' 😄
this is probably where Upstart Crow started in the first place !
Fry: "This bit of ruff (rough) is not behaving. I've said THAT before."
I'm sure I could find quite a few people who'd be happy to be a bit of rough (trade) for Stephen Fry. Whether they'd behave is anybody's guess.
David has a good point about words needing to be understood when Shakespeare used them. Does rather indicate we give him too much credit for words he coined...
IF you look most of the words are either combining of already known words or a new form of existing words, they aren't just pulled from nothing.
Stephen does make that point just before. "We can't be absolutely sure he invented all of these, but he's often the first printed source we have for them". I mean that is generally how we know history; not necessarily by who did or said something first, but by who first bothered to write it down.
Tim James a lot of it is similar to how we generate new words now - turning existing nouns into verbs, for example. The root words let people know what he's talking about.
Novel words can be understood via context.
I mean, I think this kind of word-coining is more to be respected than the type that I thought he'd been doing, where he just makes up some nonsense and uses it.
"Thou vesudious bungchasey! I quillip my rumbumbler at thee!" -The greatest English playwright of all time
Wow! I see Mr Fry kept his costume from Black Adder the 2nd! Respect!
In Canada a "Quatch" is another name for the mythical Sasquatch, known in other places as the Yeti, Abominable Snowman, or Big-Foot.
Jeez this was taped a long time ago...the time I like to refer to as BDB; Before David's Beard
Ironic seeing David Mitchell on Shakespeare 4 years before he starred in Upstart Crow 😃
So much Britishness.
Shakespeare was British. Your point?
***** You're right, there was actually a time, around Shakespeare's I think, where words could be spelled any way people wanted - or example: queen, cween, kween, quean - so they standardised it all at some point to prevent confusion
Yep, even in the centuries following Shakespeare people used to write phonetically. I once read a 18th century document where the author spelled the same word differently the three times in appearred on a single page.
@@erazure. those three aren't the same word. Rather you can have these three words spelled in the same way.
2:40 HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! He got stuck on his neckware! HAHAAHAAA
In Hawai'i a "Kickie-Wickie" is a fast kick.
Lord Melchett is back!.
I think it's amazing how 99.9% of the audience knows exactly what Alan meant by "swoltery quatch"
swell guy why is that amazing?
LemonZeppelin Because swoltery and quatch don't exist in modern English. It's amazing that we all understood what he was saying based on how the words sound
swell guy You can guess what it means. Swoltery sounds like sweltering (meaning uncomfortably hot) and quatch sounds like crotch. So people put two and two together. They didn't ask the audience afterwards so you can't know that everyone was thinking the same thing but yes, I guess it's a strange facet of English that nobody has really considered.
Because it's only a few letters, and not important letters, away from "sweltery crotch" which is what the joke was.
@@AutomaticDuck300it's Alan, extremely easy to know he's making a joke about his willy haha
There's a typo in 'mountaineer' ;)
+Harm Aouke Haaijer The QI elf in charge of typing that list was shot later that day.
This looks like the most British show ever
No, a boggler is someone who takes a series of randomly assigned letters and attempts to arrange them in as many words as possible for sport.
The Ol' Smashi-Washi AHAHAHA!
BAAAAAH!
Fry's outfit lmao
cockled is used in sheffield for falling. "it cockled o'er"
0:10 - _slow clap_
LOL 'here's my wife, she's a ajsdghjdhjsa'
when is this going to be on??
It's a horse race track in West Virginia.
when will this air?
I G\guess, not every one's going to be a chart topper.
the word aligator is said to have been invented by shakespear
“Moutaineer”?
They never did say what “swoltery” meant…
Well I don't think the word "moutaineer" has caught on. Would that be a cross between a mountaineer and a mutineer - someone who conspires to desert a team climbing Mount Everest?
What's the woman's name?
Sean Kratovil-Lavelle
Sue Perkins
Hang on a tick. From that list, below "leap-frog" and beside "moonbeam" -- what the heck is a "moutaineer"?
It is a cow with a penchant for climbing steep hills.
@@mikeoglen6848 Are you sure it isn't a French sheep? "Mouton"?
@@IAmAlgolei Quite possibly...
Shakespeare also invented the word 'elbow'.
He certainly did not. That word has been around at least half a millennium earlier.
As a noun, it is indeed much older, but it might be noted that Shakespeare was apparently the first known writer to use it as a verb (in the Quarto version of King Lear, Act 4, Scene 3).
stephen dry should be used of dressing like that after the time he spent on blackadder
Nye. I shont agroy
... or the BBC did.
Stop trying to make quatch happen.
Is it me or is the word "moutaineer" spelt wrong? Shouldn't it be "mountaineer"? QI getting it wrong again
Hey, a funny woman. I knew they existed.
Also, after having binged on some QI can't hear him say "Oh dear" anymore. It has grown to be a bit of an obsession of his.
Many of these so-called new words may be nothing more than printing errors in the First Folio! There was widespread illiteracy, and the written word had yet to be standardised in dictionary form (hence the different versions of his name, "Shakesper" etc) WS may also have scribbled down interesting words he overheard/misheard spoken in a strong regional dialect, and the results were what we now refer to as phonetic. May explain why many of the exotic-sounding words have a strong midlands and Northern English quality. Shakespeare himself had a strong Midlands accent, hailing from Warwickshire. I'm willing to bet he wasn't a big reader either, in other words semi-literate; lack of university education compensated for by his Genius (immense intelligence and imagination).
Wow, Sue Perkins isn't as funny as she thinks she is, is she?
I hate the smug look she makes every time she says something
Indeed, the look on her face after the first "joke" she throws out looks so proud and like "I made a funny!" Meanwhile, crickets.