CHAT: Diet of Worms (was CHAT: Pronunciation)

> Mangiat wrote:
>> Worms pronounced as if it were an English town /worms/
>
> Which makes the name Diet of Worms rather amusing.  :-)  I can't
> remember exactly what the Diet of Worms was, but it was an event in the
> schism between Catholic and Lutheran.
>
I think it was a Catholic conference where the Catholics started the
Counter-Reformation.  I think it was in the 1530s or 1540s, but I'm not
really sure (it's been a while since World History in 11th grade)

There's a pun on the Diet of Worms in Hamlet, somewhere around when Claudius
is inquiring of Hamlet where he stashed Polonius' body (unfortunately can't
say exactly where, especially since I don't have any Shakespeare in my
personal library).  I was pretty amused although I think a lot of my
classmates missed it, but then again, the puns are my favorite part of
Shakespeare.

-Doug