Shakespeare was famous for his off-color puns, yet much of their cleverness has been lost to the evolution of our English language.
In Shakespeare's English, the word "nothing" was pronounced as "no-ting," which at that time was a euphemism for um, a female lady part. In modern parlance, that would translate to Much Ado About... (female lady part.) Much is lost between Elizabethan times and today.
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