"odd"
Wordplay
Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 16-19
Nurse
Lady Capulet
Nurse
The Nurse frequently misinterprets the words of others and misuses her own as illustrated in this wordplay:
- "Odd" can mean a few which is Lady Capulet's meaning: two weeks and a few days.
- But the nurse humorously thinks that she's referring to an odd as opposed to an even number of days.