Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and please welcome to the stage the three regular elves.
It's Andy Murray, Anna Chazinsky, and James Harkin.
And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
My fact this week is that Lord Byron's nickname for William Wordsworth was William Turdsworth.
He had a way with words.
He was a literary genius.
They were living in the same time.
They were mates.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, they weren't mates.
They weren't at all.
Yeah, Byron thought Wordsworth was very boring, and so he called him that.
There's this whole cache of letters they've just found from Lord Byron to a friend of his who was a clergyman.
And yeah, he happens to slag off Wordsworth as Turdsworth, and there you go.
I was quite surprised that the word turd existed so far back.
Really?