Word: farborough
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...theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan slang, malapropisms, and sentences in both good and bad Latin. All of this makes the play an absolutely fascinating goldmine...
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