Aethelred the Unready
Switching on the radio, I heard the end of a comment by a Conservative MP (I presume) about welfare reform. "We don't want to be like Aethelred the Unready!" he exclaimed. My question is, does he know that "Unready" is a mistranslation of the old English "unraed" which means "bad counsel"? Aethelred was not unprepared, he was ill-advised.
posted by Whispering Walls at 1:12 pm
6 Comments:
Ah but every school boy knows he was unready as well....
Doesn't sound like he knew to me! WW, when I try to go into your blog on my other computer, I am getting a malware warning. Thought you should know. Pat
Oh? Thanks for letting me know, WL
I didn't realise that. So that would fit the MP to a T then!
lol Ellee
lol Ellee
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