apple spider vinegar
Γ¦ppel wiht Γ¦ced
joke explanation:
the word cider is from french, the original pun doesnt work in old english. the oe word is Γ¦ppelwin, literally apple wine. there isnβt a word for spider that rhymes with win, so i had to look around for some other options.
oe authors tend to be much more concerned with the alliteration of words rather than rhyming. poetry will sometimes rhyme a bit, but verse structure is much more focused on what alliterates. so, instead of finding a word to rhyme with win, i wanted a word that started with the same sounds and i settled on wiht
wiht means a thing or a creature. it often means stuff in general, but it also has a sense of animals and monsters specifically, which is the meaning i was thinking of here. so this means apple creature vinegar
rejected options:
wine, which means friend. sounds super close to win, but i decided the tone was too different from the original
wyrm, which means worm or bug in general. closest semantically to the original post, but doesnβt match with win quite as well
