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How the pun got its name?

It was a slang term to reference the linguistic crimes of Sir Harold of Punter, medieval author, and the creator of some of the most godawful stories in history. (You may remember his terrible story about "Let your pages do the walking through the yellow fingers.")

He was particularly famous for his photographs of the suite he lived in, but as developing hadn't been invented yet, all he could do was sit and wait and moan, "Someday my prints will come." When they finally did arrive, the Queen was very impressed and said, "Good knight-suite prints." In another apocryphal version of the tale, she said, "Good prints, sweet knight."

Unfortunately, Sir Harold's knighthood came into disrepute after he was offered a somewhat ill-mannered horse from the Earl of Dhogge. He said, "I wouldn't send a knight out on a Dhogge like this." Hearing this, King John had him beheaded as "a knight to dismember." The entire tale can be found in an English tome called Knight Must Fall. An alternate story of his death can be found in the chapter about his unfaithful mistress, entitled, "Slay Good Knight, Gracie."