3Lit Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.

We asked people to bring in 3 words of meaning and significance to their lives.

And we used that as a springboard for conversation.

And then at the end of the show, we asked them for a word that they'd be happy never to hear again.

So that 3Lit Words with made John Bishop and Tony Pitts listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.

Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England episode 343.

As he lived in peace, so did he die.

I need to start with an apology everyone that I have this vivid and immensely powerful sense of deja vu.

So sorry if I've already done this.

It concerns the word of the week recently.

Wherein I said that the French des airs for empathy Sandy Desert was used to replace the word void

when used for the period after dinner and before games had been set up.

Well both Olivier and Anna have pointed out that this is not the case.

The word is instead des serres, which had the original meaning of de servir, you know, to clear away.

Which makes much more sense if less sort of romantic.

Sorry, and all that.

The rest of the word week though was all true.

Anywho, now that the war with Spain was official policy, there was less need to

restrain the media as James had worked so hard to do up till then.

And said media, feeling the yoke removed from its shoulders, took full advantage of the less

stringent application of licensing and repression.

As a result, the virulence of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic rhetoric reached fever pitch.

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