Baldrick’s cunning way with old words | Letters

Blackadder | The perfect dinner party | Nancy Banks-Smith | Meeting attendees | Entertaining hymns | AntelopeSo Dominic Watt’s research team at York University claim to have discovered 30 lost English words, amongs which is “slug-a-bed” (Opinion, 15 September)? Would this be the same “lost” word used in Blackadder II, wherein the titular character played by Rowan Atkinson rouses the Bishop of Bath and Wells from his drugged slumber with “Wakey, wakey, Bish. Yo