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Book:The Shepherd's Crown/Annotations

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'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p10:'''''
Tiffany notices young Feegle are following her on her rounds and collecting examples of the strongest substance known to man, toenail clippings from the elderly. It is not specified as to what they do with them, but she suspects some sort of weapon-use is involved. Later in the book crescent-shaped boomerangs are deployed as weapons.

Compare this to Pat O'Shea's fantasy novel ''Hounds of the Morrigan'' ([http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Reading_suggestions#Pat_O.27Shea| Reading_Suggestions]) where the Celtic Irish war goddess Morrigan returns to Ireland. She/they (the Morrigan is a triple Goddess) uses her fingernails as a sort of boomerang-like ninja throwing star. This is also in Irish mythology, apparently. Where fingernails are lethal projectile weapons.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p19:'''''
''Mephistopheles'' is a good name for a goat. Although perhaps not as fitting as "Baphomet". Apparently Geoffrey Swivel got the name from a book. Geoffrey reads widely. Another literary Swivel on the Disc is the Ankh-Morpork Times' literary critic [[Tuppence Swivel]]. On Roundworld the demon Mephistopheles appears to Faust, in both book and opera, to offer him the Standard Contract. Demons, such as Baphomet, are closely associated with goats. And we know on the Discworld the nearest equivalent to the Faust thing happened with a youth called {{E}}.

And the story of the goat Mephistopheles - the rejected runt in the litter who needs intervention in order to survive - is echoed a little later when Tiffany Aching rescues the unwanted triplet Tiffany Robinson (p48). Foreshadowing? And things come in threes: Geoffrey is the youngest of three sons, Tiffany Robinson is the youngest of triplets, Mephistopheles the youngest of a litter of kids.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p21:'''''
Langus, who like Daedelus managed to fly. This is not a million miles away from Lingus, as in the Irish national airline Aer Lingus.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p32 and on:'''''
Pratchett tours the Disc to get a series of reactions, from established characters, to the Disc-changing event that marks the early part of this book (sorry: no spoilers. But it's a big one. We can rewrite this bit after the book has circulated a bit and people have had time to read it.) As he calls back to the events of {{ER}} - Smith's rag-rug on the bed and a very brief cameo from Esk - he reverts, in this chapter, to the second-person writing style that distinguished {{ER}} from the other early novels. And of course just as Esk was a girl who wanted to become a wizard, Geoffrey is a boy who wants to become a witch.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p42:'''''
An enigma fated never to be be resolved: the second reference to [[Eskarina Smith]]'s son (although this is discussed on the [[Talk:Eskarina Smith|Eskarina Smith talk page]].

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p44:'''''
Triplets are born. A daughter is disregarded after two sons. Tiffany takes charge and even names the girl Tiffany after herself. There is a hint that in the fullness of time this girl will become the next non-leader that the community of witches emphatically doesn't have; Pratchett's way of saying the circles of life continue?

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p45:'''''
The white cat You's mysterious means of getting about. Elsewhere it has been speculated that this is a case of ''Schrödinger's Hat''....

'''''Harper paperback, p. 68'''''
"the times they is a-changing" The Times They Are A-Changin' is one of Bob Dylan's most famous songs

'''''Harper paperback, p. 82'''''
"Mephistopheles, how many people are in this pub?" A famous horse called Clever Hans could do the same "trick." In the case of Hans, the horse would continue to tap his hoof until the questioner's body language changed to indicate that the horse should stop tapping.

'''''Harper paperback, p. 83'''''
"…threatened to wallop them with his grandfather’s knobkerrie, a souvenir from the Klatchian campaign…" In [[Roundworld]], a [[Wikipedia:Knobkerrie|knobkerrie]] is a wooden club or stick from Southern or Eastern Africa with a ball on one end, typically used as a weapon, making it a foreign version of a staff with a knob on the end.

'''''Harper paperback, p. 207'''''
"We will put a girdle of glamour around their world" "I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes." Puck, A Mudsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene 1

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p214:'''''
It ''had'' to happen. The concept that Discworld lumberjacks perform their duties better when wearing womens' clothing. And singing while they work. They even get the ''''''Biggerwoods''''' mail-order catalogue. In Britain, ''Littlewoods'' is a popular mail-order company specialising in women's clothing from lingerie up to outerwear and clothes and singing is a reference to the Monty Python lumberjack song.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p223'''''
In this case Elvish has indeed left the building. A callback to {{SM}}.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p230:'''''
A callback to Granny Weatherwax in {{LL}}. Only here, Tiffany is contemplating the possibility inherent - what if Elves really can be made to learn? What if they learn, and develop, and grow up a little?

'''''Harper paperback, p. 260'''''
"Och no, I know who I am and he knows who he is and so does our other brother Callum." This is very reminiscent of Larry, Darryl & Darryl from the sitcom Newhart.

'''''Harper paperback, p. 260'''''
"We happy few" This whole section is peppered with quotations & adaptations of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V.

'''''Doubleday hardback (UK), p277:'''''
A shout-out to a bleak old English ballad made relevant by Terry's favourite band, Steeleye Span. The ballad "Long Lankin" is about child-murder by night and named this particular elf. The LP that has this song, incidentally, is called ''The Commoner's Crown''. Listen to it '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSUH6YPM9oI here]'''''

[[Category:Annotations|The Shepherd's Crown]]

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cover of the new book

Book:The Shepherd's Crown

2024-08-30T11:49:38Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title= The Shepherd's Crown
|cover= [[File:tsc.jpg|240px|thumb|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=several
|illustrator=Paul Kidby
|date=27 Aug, 2015
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780857534811
|pages=343
|rrp=£20.00
|series=Tiffany Series
|characters=[[Tiffany Aching]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=The forty-first Discworld novel
}}
Released on Thursday 27th August 2015.

==Publisher's Blurb:==
A SHIVERING OF WORLDS

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.

This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.

As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

There will be a reckoning . . .

{{death|the final discworld novel}}

==Main Characters==
*[[Tiffany Aching]]
*[[Queen of the Elves|Nightshade]]
*[[Peaseblossom]]
*[[Geoffrey Swivel]]
*[[Esme Weatherwax]]

==Other Characters ==
*[[Joe Aching]]
*The [[Chalk Hill Clan]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Letice Earwig]]
*[[Magrat Garlick]]
*[[Jeannie]]
*[[Letitia Keepsake]]
*[[McTavish]]
*[[Mephistopheles]]
*[[Of the Lathe the Swarf]]
*The [[King of the Elves]]
*[[Gytha Ogg]]
*[[Preston]]
*[[Eunice Proust]]
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
*[[Roland]]
*[[Laughing Boy Sideways]]
*[[Perspicacia Tick]]
*[[You]]

==Extra Content==
*'The Witches of Discworld bonus content' by [[Jacqueline Simpson]], only available in the ebook version.
*‘Doing As You Would Bee Done By’ by Terry Pratchett in Slipcase Collector's Edition.
*Four commentaries on the folklore of the book by Jacqueline Simpson in Deluxe Collector's or 'Gold' Edition.
*Map of [[the Chalk]] in 2017 Gift Edition.
*Spot illustrations in 2017 paperback edition by Laura Ellen Anderson.

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| valign="top" | [[File:TSCUS.jpg|thumb|120px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TSCUS Extract.jpg|thumb|120px|Extract Sampler]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TSC CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TSC Mid.jpg|thumb|110px|Midnight Flyer]]
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| valign="top" | [[File:TSC YA Cover.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback 2017 by Laura Ellen Anderson]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TSC 2023.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2023]]
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==External links==
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/terry-pratchett-wanted-different-ending-shepherds-crown/ ''Neil Gaiman reveals the real ending Terry Pratchett wanted for The Shepherd's Crown'']

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Book:Raising Steam

2024-08-29T13:50:44Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Raising Steam
|cover=[[File:RaisingSteam.jpg|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=no
|illustrator=[[Paul Kidby]]
|date=7 Nov, 2013
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780857522276
|pages=384
|rrp=£20.00
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books
|characters=[[Moist von Lipwig]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=The fortieth Discworld novel
}}
==Blurb==
'''Raising Steam''' Takes place 8 years after [[The Fifth Elephant]]. To the consternation of the patrician, [[Lord Vetinari]], a new invention has arrived in [[Ankh-Morpork]] - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.
[[Moist von Lipwig]] is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital... but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse...
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...

'''Quote'''
''The villains of the storybook had found their place in society, at last. All it needed was technology''.

==Characters==
*'''Major Characters'''
**[[Adora Belle Dearheart|Adora Belle von Lipwig]]
**[[Ardent]]
**[[Moist von Lipwig]]
**[[Rhys Rhysson|Low King Rhys]]
**[[Havelock Vetinari]]
**[[Dick Simnel]]
**[[Of the Twilight the Darkness]]
**[[Harry King]]
**[[Samuel Vimes]]
**[[Iron Girder]]

*'''Minor Characters'''
**[[Albrecht Albrechtson]]
**[[Bashfull Bashfullsson]]
**[[Bedwyr Beddsson]]
**[[Cedric]]
**[[CMOT Dibbler]]
**[[Fflergant]]
**[[Blodwen Footcracker]]
**[[Sulien Heddwyn]]
**[[Elsie Simnel]]
** Mr [[Thunderbolt]]
**[[Stoker Blake]]
**[[Aeron]]
**[[Effie King]]
**[[Detritus]]
**[[Bluejohn]]
**[[Drumknott]]
**[[Angua]]
**[[Lady Margolotta]]
**[[Crossly]]

*'''Cameos & Mentions'''
**[[Nanny Ogg]]
**[[Ned Simnel]] (deceased)
**[[Crisp]]
**[[Mrs Crossly]]
**[[Crackle]]
**[[Dopey Docson]]

==Interesting Additional Features==
The Doubleday hardback features an expanded two page map of the Central Sea region on pp8-9, (or at least of its Hubwards side), which provides a lot of interesting detail as to locations of places previously only hinted at or else vaguely located. The map covers the region [[Quirm]]-[[Ankh-Morpork]] - [[Scrote]] - [[Überwald]] - [[Lancre]] with [[The Chalk]], [[Sheepridge]] and the [[Octarine Grass Country]] shading in. No indication of scale is given, save for the incidental detail in the text that the completed railway line from Ankh-Morpork to Überwald is 1,200 miles long.

The Doubleday hardback special edition exclusive to the retailer WHSmith contained an additional extra short story [[Short Story:Humphrey Newt's Thunderbolt Carriage|''Humphrey Newt's Thunderbolt Carriage'']].

This book had two [[Deleted Scenes|deleted scenes]] cut from it called 'The Skeleton in the Cavern' and 'Counterblast.' These were reprinted in the convention exclusive [[Book:Terry Pratchett's Folio|''Terry Pratchett's Folio'']].

==Gallery==
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| valign="top" | [[File:RS Slip.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Edition Slipcase]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS Ltd.jpg|thumb|130px|Limited Edition with bookmark]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS WHSmith.jpg|thumb|110px|WHSmith exclusive edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS Orange.jpg|thumb|160px|Independent retailer edition]]
|}
{|
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| valign="top" | [[File:RS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS Kidby.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:RS 2023.jpg|thumb|110px|2023 Paperback]]
|}

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Surreptitious albatross

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The '''surreptitious albatross''' is a large bird that only touches the ground during mating season, utilising thermals to hover high up in the sky the rest of the time where they are difficult to discern from the ground. Another fact about this bird is that it is actually an eagle that masquerades as a type of albatross, giving rise to the nickname "shark o' the sky," given to it by Wee Mad Arthur. The surreptitious albatross has no enemies that it can’t easily digest. Other unsuspecting birds will join it as it circles in a city's thermal bloom providing a ready meal for the albatross.

Wee Mad Arthur states that there are only two people that know about it, himself and the Professor of Ornithology at Unseen University, and he is the one that told the professor about it. He hitches a ride on one to travel to Howondaland from Ankh-Morpork using the new method of travel he learned from the Nac mac Feegle''(sic)'': the [[Crawstep|craw step]]. The albatross appears only and briefly in {{SN}}.

Surreptitious albatross

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Crawstep

2024-08-29T00:50:41Z

Myk Streja: Wikilinks

The [[Nac Mac Feegle]] use the '''crawstep''' to magically travel between worlds of all kinds, such as the demesne of the Queen of the Elves, the Underworld, and even into bigjobs' dreams. However, they are not able to use it to travel within a world; for that purpose they assure us they have “feets.”

In {{SN}}, [[Wee Mad Arthur]] refers to the recently learned procedure as the "craw step" taught to him by the Nac mac Feegle''(sic)'', and he performs it to travel quickly on the back of a [[surreptitious albatross]] from [[Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Howondaland]] in a single day. It isn't made clear how he circumvents the stricture that it can't be used to travel within a world. The only clue is that he and the bird vanished from the sky with a loud bang while the universe rushes past them making a noise like ''weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee''.

The mechanics of crawstepping are actually pretty straightforward. To accomplish this, the pictsie throws back his shoulders, with his arms bent at the elbows, stuck out behind him. He leans back, thrusting one leg out for balance, and then he wiggles his foot in the air a few times. Finally he leans forward, vanishing as soon as his foot touches the ground.

The exact physics of the crawstep are unknown, even apparently to the Nac Mac Feegle themselves, and when asked, the only comment was, “It’s all in the ankle movement, ye ken.” Even so, it appears that humans can also use the crawstep, but the circumstances that allow this are unclear. [[Roland]], who at the time was the son of the baron on The Chalk, uses it in {{W}} to help retrieve the [[Summer Lady]] from an underworld that used to be called [[Limbo]].

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Crawstep

2024-08-28T23:39:47Z

Myk Streja: Wee Mad Arthur

The [[Nac Mac Feegle]] use the '''crawstep''' to magically travel between worlds of all kinds, such as the demesne of the Queen of the Elves, the Underworld, and even into bigjobs' dreams. However, they are not able to use it to travel within a world; for that purpose they assure us they have “feets.”

In {{SN}}, [[Wee Mad Arthur]] refers to the recently learned procedure as the "craw step", and he performs it to travel quickly on the back of a surreptitious albatross from Ankh-Morpork to Howondaland in a single day. It isn't made clear how he circumvents the stricture that it can't be used to travel within a world. The only clue is that he and the bird vanished from the sky with a loud bang while the universe rushes past them making a noise like ''weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee''.

The mechanics of crawstepping are actually pretty straightforward. To accomplish this, the pictsie throws back his shoulders, with his arms bent at the elbows, stuck out behind him. He leans back, thrusting one leg out for balance, and then he wiggles his foot in the air a few times. Finally he leans forward, vanishing as soon as his foot touches the ground.

The exact physics of the crawstep are unknown, even apparently to the Nac Mac Feegle themselves, and when asked, the only comment was, “It’s all in the ankle movement, ye ken.” Even so, it appears that humans can also use the crawstep, but the circumstances that allow this are unclear. [[Roland]], who at the time was the son of the baron on The Chalk, uses it in {{W}} to help retrieve the [[Summer Lady]] from an underworld that used to be called [[Limbo]].

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Book:Snuff

2024-08-27T13:49:11Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Snuff
|cover=[[File:Cover snuff.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kiby]]
|coauthors=no
|illustrator=Paul Kidby
|date=October 2011
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385619264
|pages=378
|rrp=£18.99
|series=Watch Series
|characters=[[Sam Vimes]], [[Feeney Upshot]], [[Willikins]]
|annotations=View
|notes=
}}
On sale as of Thursday 13th October 2011, '''''Snuff''''' is the thirty-ninth book in the [[Discworld]] series, after {{ISWM}}. It primarily features [[Sam Vimes]] his family, and their domestic servants, and expands on the continuing story of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] as well. A sub-plot involves [[Mightily Oats]] and the [[goblins]], and new Watch characters are referenced, including [[Emile|Captain Emile]] of the [[Quirm City Watch]].

Terry's hint as to plot and content is that we should be aware that there are at least two meanings to the word "[[wikipedia:Snuff (disambiguation)|snuff]]".

Rob Wilkins (Terry's stenographer) read an extract from the current text at the 2010 Discworld Convention: the story features [[Goblin]]s and commences with Sam Vimes going away on a two-week holiday with his wife to their country house, Crundells (which was mentioned in passing in the earlier half of the events in {{T!}}).

==Blurb==
According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all...

==Characters==
===Main Characters===
* [[Sam Vimes]]
* [[Sybil Ramkin]]
* [[Stinky]]
* [[Feeney Upshot]]
* [[Havelock Vetinari]]
* [[Willikins]]
* [[Young Sam Vimes]]

===Secondary Characters===
* '''The Shires'''
** [[Charles Augustus Makepeace|Colonel Charles Makepeace]]
** [[Letitia Makepeace]] - Chair of the local Magistrates
** [[Mrs Pickings]] - Local Magistrate
** [[Very Reverend Mouser]] - Local Magistrate
** [[Edgehill]] - Local Magistrate
** [[Honourable Ambrose]] - Local Magistrate
** [[Felicity Beedle|Miss Felicity Beedle]]
** [[Rust|Lord Rust]]
** [[Praise and Salvation False]]
** [[Ted Flutter]]
** [[Ariadne|Ariadne Gordon]]
** [[Bewilderforce Gumption]]
** [[Jethro Jefferson]]
** [[Jiminy]]
** [[Captain Murderer]]
** [[Gastric Sillitoe]]
** [[Mrs Sillitoe]]
** [[Silver (Crundells)|The Silvers]]
** [[Stratford]]
** [[Ten Gallons]]
** [[Mrs Upshot]]
** [[Stump]]
**[[Summoning Dark]]
* '''Goblins'''
** Billy Slick (Of the Wind Regretfully Blown)
** Granny Slick (Regret of the Falling Leaf)
** The Cold Bone Wakes (Chieftain)
** Sound of the Rain on Hard Ground
** Shine of the Rainbow
** [[Tears of the Mushroom]]
** The Pleasant Contrast of the Orange and Yellow Petals in the Flower of the Gorse
** [[Nobby Nobbs|The Breaking Wind]]
* '''Ankh-Morpork'''
** [[Fred Colon]]
** [[Rufus Drumknott]]
** [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]
** [[Harry King]]
** [[Cheery Littlebottom]]
** [[Nobby Nobbs]]
** [[Mightily Oats]]
** [[A.E. Pessimal]]
* '''Quirm'''
** [[Emile|Captain Emile]]
** [[Haddock|Acting-Captain Haddock]]
** Lieutenant [[Perdix]]

===Mentioned===
* [[Slant|Mr Slant]]
* [[Ly Tin Wheedle]]
* [[Gravid Rust]]
* [[Regina Rust]]
* Mistress [[Slightly]]

==Locations==
* [[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Quirm]]
* [[The Shires]]
** [[Crundells]]
** The [[Goblin's Head]]
* The river [[Quire]]
* [[Howondaland]]
* [[Chalk Hill Clan]] (Mentioned)

==Things and Concepts==
* [[Piecemaker#Piecemaker_Mark_IX|Burleigh & Stronginthearm Piecemaker Mark IX]]
* [[Glorious Peggy]]
* [[Goblins]]
* [[Queen of Quirm]]
* [[Roberta E. Biscuit]]
* [[Unggue]]
* [[Wonderful Fanny]]
* [[Book:The World of Poo|World of Poo]]

==Extra Content==
In some editions, most notably the Waterstone's Gold imprint, the short story ''[[Short Story:A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices|A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices]]'' is included as a supplementary bonus story at the end of the main tale.

This short story describes the reaction of the [[Wizards|wizards]] of [[Unseen University]] to a proposal from the [[Patrician]] to introduce regulation of university education. It references the government inspector [[A.E. Pessimal]], who first appeared to mainstream readers in the full-length novel {{T!}} when he was assigned to inspect the City Watch.

{{T!}} was published in autumn 2005. However, the story ''[[Short Story:A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices|A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices]]'' was first published a little earlier, in the May 13th, 2005 issue of {{wp|The_Times_Higher_Education_Supplement|The Times Higher Education Supplement}}. This novel, {{SN}}, includes its first print in the less ephemeral world of hardback books, making Pratchett's original introduction of [[A.E. Pessimal]] more readily available to mainstream readers.

Also, the new paperback edition of Snuff contains the first chapter of [[Book:Dodger|Dodger]] and chapters one and two of [[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]].

==Gallery==
{|
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| valign="top" | [[File:Cover snuff.jpg|thumb|120px|First Edition Cover by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN Sampler.jpg|thumb|130px|Book Sampler]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN Gold.jpg|thumb|140px|WHSmith 'Gold' Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN Slip.jpg|thumb|120px|Collectors Edition Slipcase]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN Black.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback]]
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{|
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| valign="top" | [[File:SN CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN Kidby.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN CL.jpg|thumb|120px|Collectors Library Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:SN 2023.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback 2023]]
|}

==External Links==
* ''[http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/index.php/books/snuff/ Snuff]'' on Terry Pratchett.co.uk. An extract from the opening chapter may be read here, and free extracts can be picked up from Waterstone's.
* ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_%28Pratchett_novel%29 Snuff]'' on Wikipedia
* [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150118868755025&set=a.414453865024.181790.43413980024&ref=nf Draft sketch of ''Snuff'''s cover] on Terry Pratchett's Facebook page, showing Sam Vimes at the wheel of the ''[[Wonderful Fanny]]'', vexed by a flock of startled chickens, with Old Treachery coming up behind him.

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Book:I Shall Wear Midnight

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Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

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'''''I Shall Wear Midnight''''' is the fourth [[Tiffany Aching]] novel, published September 2, 2010.

The title is loosely based upon the poem “When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple” by {{wp|Jenny_Joseph|Jenny Joseph}}. This is the title that most people would recognise, however it is interesting that the correct title for her poem is “Warning”.1 Despite a superficial similarity, there is no evidence to link the two works.

The title is also a capsule of the thought process of the character Tiffany in regards to her wearing colourful clothing despite being a [[Witches|witch]]. It is also a callback to the end of {{HFOS}}, regarding the cloak that the [[hiver]] bought while possessing her. It is also echoed in the track “We Shall Wear Midnight” on the Tiffany Aching-inspired Steeleye Span album ''[[Wintersmith (Steeleye Span)|Wintersmith]]'', which was released in 2013.

As with previous books, Tiffany has aged two years since ''[[Book:Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]'', and is now "nearly sixteen".

According to interviews given while it was being written, ''I Shall Wear Midnight'' was originally intended by Pratchett to be the final Tiffany Aching book.

1''You can see it [http://www.barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm here].''

== Blurb ==
A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head... It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany. And he's found her...

A fabulous Discworld title filled with witches and magic and told in the inimitable [[Terry Pratchett]] style, ''I Shall Wear Midnight'' is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin', boozin’ [[pictsie]] friends, the [[Nac Mac Feegle]] (aka The Wee Free Men).

== Main Characters ==
*[[Tiffany Aching]]
*The [[Cunning Man]]
*[[Jeannie]]
*[[Letitia Keepsake]]
*[[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]]
*[[Deirdre Parsley]], lately Lady Keepsake / The Duchess
*[[Amber Petty]]
*[[Preston]]
*[[Roland]]
*[[Eskarina Smith]]

== Minor Characters & Cameos ==
*[[Joe Aching]]
*[[Wentworth Aching]]
*[[Sally Cambric]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Magrat Garlick]]
*[[Happenstance|Mrs Happenstance]]
*[[Nanny Ogg]]
*[[Seth Petty]]
*[[Molly Petty]]
*[[Mrs Proust]]
*[[Granny Weatherwax]]
*Members of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
**[[Wee Mad Arthur]]
**[[Haddock]]
**[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]
**[[Nobby Nobbs]]
**Captain [[Angua von Überwald]]
**[[Sam Vimes]]

== Locations ==
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**[[Unreal Estate]]
*[[The Chalk]]
**[[Home Farm]]
*[[Keepsake Hall]]

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Latatian Phrases

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Myk Streja: /* Other Latatian phrases */ Added book

Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cogito Ergo Sum'' - "I exist, therefore I do sums" -- personal motto of Commander Vimes' GooseberryTM imp. (orig. "I think, therefore I am")
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] ({{J}}) and [[Carcer]] ({{NW}}).
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Alea Jacta Est'' - "The Die Is Cast": Can't stop now. (Die is the singular form of dice; cast means to throw) ({{HFOS}} and {{UA}})
* ''Alma Pater'' - lit. "Fostering Father" - Unseen University's version of [[wikipedia:Alma mater|''alma mater'']]. ({{GP}})
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) - "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potet'' - "''One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do''" - An ancient and famous volume mentioned in {{HFOS}}.
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ({{WFM}})
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" - See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

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Glenda Sugarbean

2024-08-26T15:34:22Z

Myk Streja: Properly chaise longue (see book text)

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Queen of the [[Night Kitchen]] in {{UA}}. A doozy with a pie, but even better with a metaphysical hammer...

Her family are sought-after chefs and cooks and in fact, we learn Glenda is sitting on an offer to transfer her skills to the [[Fools' Guild]], an institution that knows its pies. Even [[Vetinari]] himself is tempted to head-hunt her skills for the Palace kitchen, and in passing we learn her grandmother was a very successful pie-maker to the [[Assassins' Guild]]. Glenda herself invented the Ploughman's Pie, complete with a special technique to keep the pickled onions crisp. She does, however, do a small side job: selling beauty products to trolls for Mr [[Stronginthearm]].

Glenda is, in terms of looks, what the wizards would call "pleasant" or "homely" (although a very well-kept home). Her bosom would be a better fit on a girl two foot taller. She is not in the same league as her friend and (eventually) model [[Juliet Stollop]]. [[Trevor Likely|Trev]], her former boyfriend, refers to Glenda initially as a "fat girl" who makes a great pie. While she regularly reminds Juliet not to indulge in any hanky-panky, she is both unsurprised and disappointed when any opportunities for some hanky-panky of her own are swiftly dashed or ignored.

She is quite motherly and strives to always be in control, regularly doing other people's thinking for them. Not only does she look after Juliet, but Glenda also takes care of her elderly neighbours. She has to hold herself back from taking other people's tasks on herself to ensure they are done right. Her inner voice regularly reprimands her for doing this, among other things. She is, however, always standing up for the little guy, which is often [[Nutt|Mr. Nutt]]. Throughout {{UA}} we see Glenda's character develop as she resolves not to be part of the "crab bucket" of folk wisdom that keeps poor people from aspiring to high achievement, eventually telling [[Juliet Stollop|Juliet]] to pursue her career as Juliet sees fit and to be true to herself rather than following Glenda's previous repressive advice.

She secretly reads trashy romance novels by [[Iradne Comb-Buttworthy]]; a guilty pleasure, despite her realization they all have basically the same plot. When encountering a chaise longue in the [[Unseen_University|UU]] cellars, she prays for a moment of privacy so she can practice ''languishing''. She learned some fancy words from these novels, but has never heard them aloud: When Mr. Nutt used the term "faux pas", she asked him if it looked to say "forks pass" when written down.

She owns a teddy bear called Mr. Wobble; due to a childhood sewing error, he has three eyes.
She very rarely cries.

During the events of {{UA}}, Glenda learns to live a little, gaining strength from challenging people's authority (even talking back to the [[Havelock_Vetinari|Patrician]]) and taking risks. She begins to appreciate that people need to pursue 'the dream', flogging [[Verdant Spring| beauty products to trolls]], and even coming up with several original marketing ideas of her own, much to the surprise of her employer. By the end of the book, she has graciously relinquished her hold over Juliet's life and is romantically involved with [[Nutt]], planning to ride off with him to [[Quirm]].

A young UU employee named Glenda appears briefly in the fourth ''Science of Discworld'', but it's unclear if she's the same Glenda.

== Annotations ==

Glenda joins the ranks of Pratchett characters best described as a "fine figure of a woman," along with [[Lady Sybil]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. Pratchett seems to have a particular affinity for this relatively underserved type, allowing them to develop as many-dimensional human characters with a range of interests and feelings rather than as comic relief. The characters are not defined by their body type, but do encounter issues stemming from others' perception of them (e.g. Lady Sybil is underestimated by her captors in {{TFE}}) or from their own insecurities (as does Agnes in {{M!!!}}). Glenda is constantly reminded of her friend Juliet's beauty and her own comparative plainness, but handles this with a tremendous practicality.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Sugarbean, Glenda]]
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Bu-Bubble

2024-08-26T11:51:59Z

Myk Streja: Some light proofing

Apparently a fashion and style magazine in [[Ankh-Morpork]], publisher unknown. May have a lot in common with Roundworld froth-mags such as "Hello!", "Heat", etc. Seen in {{UA}}, it devotes an inside section to [[Dwarf]] female style, indicating that the revolution begun by [[Cheery Littlebottom]] still rolls on. Often features 'lifestyle profiles' on various social and fashion icons, with questions such as 'do you wax?' and 'what is your favorite spoon?'

Interestingly enough, in a mood of hysteria following the fire that destroyed the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] press in Gleam Street, [[William de Worde]] and [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] are discussing ideas to maximise revenue from the printing presses and come up with ideas for glossy magazines. Sacharissa muses "Ring, yes. Now that's another thing. There are all the dwarfs in the city. We could produce a magazine for them. I mean … what's the modern dwarf wearing this season?" ({{TT}}, page 269)

We are told in {{CAM}} that this is indeed published on the same presses that produce the Times, although publishership is attributed to [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] and not to William and Sacharissa. then again, Gunilla, William and Sacharissa are all part of the same team.

[[Category:Discworld publications]]

==Annotation==

In Latin, 'bubo' translates to 'cry like a bittern (bird that booms/roars like an ox during mating)'. As Pratchett was quite clever in his use of portmanteaus, the word also resonates with the word 'bitter', which is a state of being regularly associated with relationships in such magazines, etc. A heron-like bird, 'bittern' comes from Latin butionem "bittern" + taurus "bull" (see steer (n.)); according to Pliny, so called because of its booming voice, but this seems fanciful. Modern form from 1510s.' ('bittern' etymology is from etymonline.com)

Possibly from Bu-bo, or bubonic pustule. Which is - more-or-less - a fair approximation of said froth-mags...

'Me and my spoon' is a feature in the British satirical magazine Private Eye, satirising trivial interviews with questions such as 'What is your favourite Spoon', 'Has anything amusing ever happened to you in connection with a spoon', etc.

Here's a really interesting one. Think in Quirmian for a moment and listen to the sound made by ''Bu-Bubble''. It has been suggested that if interpreted in Quirmian, the name of the publication comes out as ''Beau, Beaux, Belle'' - a repetition of the word for ''lovely'', ''beautiful'' in various iterations. OK, so it might have to be "Bo-" and not "Bu-" to really work, but look at how many women's beauty and style magazines on Roundworld have French names - ''Marie-Claire'', ''Vogue'', ''Mode''…

Broad Way

2024-08-26T11:07:35Z

Myk Streja: A little clarity

'''Broad Way''' is the central thoroughfare of [[Ankh-Morpork]], beginning at the foot of [[Pseudopolis Yard]] in the [[Isle of Gods]] and running [[Hubwards]]-by-[[Widdershins]] across the [[Brass Bridge]] to the [[Patrician's Palace]], which it surrounds by splitting into [[Turnwise]] and Widdershins Broad Way. It then continues to the Hubwards Gate. It is divided into Upper and Lower Broad Way by the [[Brass Bridge]]. With typical disregard for spelling conventions, it is often written as ''Broadway'', as in the official [[Book:The Streets of Ankh-Morpork|mapp]]. The same Morporkian logic that makes [[Short Street]] the city's longest causes the elevated portion on the Isle of Gods to be called Lower Broad Way and the low side Upper Broad Way. In {{TOT}} and {{T!}} we learn that the [[Royal Art Museum]] is located here, and in {{MM}} we learn the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] is also located on Broad Way.

==Annotation==

Another multiversal convention centers the theater district on Lower Broad Way, starting at the [[Opera House]] in Pseudopolis Yard and passing [[The Dysk (theatre)|The Dysk]] and the [[Bear Pit]]. This resonates with the [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Broadway_theatre|Broadway in New York}}, upon which are many of the world's finest theaters and all the best plays are performed.

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Maul

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The '''Maul''' is a wide boulevard in Central [[Ankh-Morpork]] connecting [[Plaza of Broken Moons]] to the Turnwise [[Broad Way]] by the [[Patrician's Palace]]. The street is home to some of Ankh-Morpork's largest shops, including [[Crumley's]] department store and Bolters clothes store and a small, expensive one called [[Shatta]].

==Annotation==

A street in London used for similar purposes is [[wikipedia:The_Mall_%28London%29|The Mall]].

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== [[Book:Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]] Annotations ==

General:-

It has been suggested that the opening pages of the book, in which Rudolf Scattering, night-watchman at the Royal Art Museum receives a nasty surprise, is a deliberate parody of Dan Brown's mystery thrillers of the ''Da Vinci Code'' genre.

[[Pedestriana]] - the plucky barefoot Goddess of Football. According to the Guardian, (edition of 30/12/09), in an article on the weird compulsion of men to collect, in this case a man with a desire to own a match programme for ''every'' game ever played by London side Tottenham Hotspur. The newspaper reproduces the front cover of the 1921 F.A. Cup Final programme, which features...guess what... a robed and barefoot Goddess of Football, the winged angel standing bare of foot atop the ball... documentary evidence, hopefully, will follow.

The name ''Dimwell'' seems close to ''Millwall'', area and football club in London noted for the belligerence of their supporters. House chant:
''Nobody loves us. And we don't care!'' Once combined an away visit to Manchester City with looting jeweller's shops on Wilmslow Road whilst the police were marching them to the ground. Two thousand fans overwhelmed three coppers and in the subsequent Shove, managed to gut a jewellers.

Dimwell, like Millwall for London, is a dockside area that must provide most of Ankh-Morpork's stevedores, dockers and longshoremen. In fact: one of Andy Shanks' associates shares out the bounty at one point - of loose goods purloined while working a casual shift at the docks, unloading an incoming ship.

There are a fair number of "Lord of the Rings" references in "Unseen Academicals." Is [[micromail]] (see reference in article for alternative in sci-fi/fantasy) a reference to Frodo's mithril shirt? A metal called "moonsilver" is cited by Pepe as being a major component of micromail - "moonsilver" is a translation of the elvish "mithril".

A recurring theme throughout the book is Mr Nutt's search for ''worth''. This leads him to many uncomfortable, even dangerous, places, and involves mental and emotional anguish, at one point a near-Death experience.

Later in the book, he has the Margolotta-guided insight that the worth he seeks is not a property of deeds or created things, but an ongoing process of creation.

This echoes the quest of the narrator of Robert M. Pirsig's work of popular philosophy, '''''Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance''''', who undergoes similar travails in search of elusive ''quality'' only to realise it isn't so much a ''thing'' as an ongoing ''process''. {{SM}} apart, there are no motorbikes on the Discworld. Pirsig's character grounds himself via looking after his motorcycle - but Mr Nutt is an accomplished amateur blacksmith who succeeds in re-shoeing the most difficult horse on the Quirm Flyer (horses are as near as the Disc gets, in general?)

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p.11)''' '''''Speaking of Glenda's teddy bear, Mr. Wobble. "Traditionally, in the lexicon of pathos, such a bear should have only one eye, but as the result of a childhood error in Glenda's sewing, he has three, and is more enlightened than the average bear."'''''

The picnic basket-stealing cartoon character, Yogi Bear, is frequently described as "smarter than the average bear." It is also a reference to "opening one's third eye", a feature of several spiritual traditions, usually having to do with gaining insight into the workings of the universe. The word "yogi" can also mean a practitioner of some of these traditions.

'''(Corgi paperback, UK, p28)''' '''''Hunting the Megapode''''' The Roundworld equivalent, {{wp|Wren_Day|The Hunting of the Wrens}}, is forgotten almost as totally as the Discworld version. The {{wp|Megapode|megapode}} is a real bird, whose name appropriately enough means "Bigfoot". The Megapode Hunt may also refer to the Oxford tradition of Hunting the Mallard, as suggested in The Culture of Discworld.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p27)''' '''''"in most cases the minutes could be written beforehand"''''' Ponder Stibbons' technique for creating minutes of Faculty meetings is, in purpose and execution, identical to standard British Civil Service policy. (As described in the great satire of government life, '''Yes, Prime Minister''', in which Sir Humphrey Appleby is an adept at predicting in advance how a meeting will work out and can quite safely dictate the minutes in advance.)

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p36)''' '''''"No one could have been neutral when the Dark War had engulfed Far Überwald"'''''. A sideways reference to Tolkien's {{wp|Middle-earth|Middle-earth}}, perhaps, especially in the light of Mr Nutt's [[Orcs|species]] and their perceived role in the Dark War of antiquity. '''''"Alas, when the time came to write down their story, his people hadn't even got a pencil"'''''. Unlike more favoured races who had time and liberty to craft entire ''Red Books of Westmarch'' to get their side of the story out first... the Dark War is referred to on page 58 by Vetinari and on page 60 by Ridcully, where Vetinari likens the playing pieces on the Thud board to the Dark Hordes, in their lack of free will and their having been crafted for a single purpose - to fight. Ridcully reflects on what "the monsters" had been bred to do, and wonders what became of the thousands upon thousands of ''them'' who were bred to fight. Also, re-referencing Middle-earth, Treebeard speculates that Saruman had crossbred Orcs and Men, which he calls "a black evil", to create the {{wp|Uruk-hai|Uruk-hai}}, perfect fighting machines to fight in a war that engulfs a large area of land... Vetinari himself notes that it wasn't Igoring goblins that produced orcs, but using humans, in whom the natural capacity for violence and evil is so much greater. There's also a slight resonance with the original Tolkien orcs which were created when (Middle-earthen) elves were betrayed and corrupted. In neither case are they natural creatures - they have been twisted into these shapes through evil intent. In the Jackson film version of the LOTR, they are even ''more'' "bred": the Uruk-hai are dug from the ground in a grotesque birthing sequence. There is a reference to the spawning of Orcs from the ground earlier in the book, where Nutt is contemplating the tallow vats, permanently bubbling and seething, (as per the film) as a place where he finds himself feeling safe and peaceful in an odd and nursery-like way. ''People in the streets had jeered to him that he'd been made in a vat. Although Brother Oats had told him that this was silly, the gently bubbling tallow had called to him. He felt at peace here.'' ('''p33''')

It is also worth noting that the phrase '''''"No one could have been neutral..."''''' has associations when one ponders the evolution of the fantasy fiction novel. J.R.R. Tolkien's master work has a rather simplistic two-dimensional ''"you are either Good or Evil and that's all there is to it.''" feel about the morality and the motivation of characters. As Tolkien's Middle Earth was heavily influenced by Tolkien's Christianity, and the notion that all that is Good comes of faith in and duty to God, while all that is Evil comes of rejection of God and joining in the Fall, this dichotomy excludes a Third Way.

The Third Way is introduced by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, who thought about the mechanics involved, and came up with a moral picture drawn as much from science as from mysticism. Moorcock, drawing his cue from the scientific laws of thermodynamics, insisted the primal struggle in the Multiverse was not between Good and Evil but between the opposed forces of Law and Chaos. After making that primal alignment, a character was free to make a secondary alignment with Good, Evil or the third state - '''''Neutral''''' - as he or she pleased.

Being of the Law does not necessarily mean you are Good - consider the [[Auditors]] - and being of Chaos does not necessarily mean you are Evil. Consider Ronnie [[Soak]].

Moorcock's system offers so much choice and scope for delineating more complex three-dimensional characters that [[Dungeons and Dragons]] creator Gary Gygax adopted it wholesale. But here, in the Discworld, we are being explicitly told it is not an option - '''''"No one could have been Neutral when the Dark War had engulfed Far Überwald"''''' The Dark War takes its referents, therefore, from Tolkien and not Moorcock/Gygax.

('''''More Here:- [[Reading_suggestions#Mary_Gentle|Mary Gentle]]. Ref.''''' author Mary Gentle and book "''Grunts''". In which a captured Orc is heavily laden with chains and secured to an anvil in the hope that this renders it dormant.)

Mary Gentle, like Neil Gaiman, is the subject of a dedication of an earlier Discworld book (the [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club]] consisted of her and several others from the new wave of British sci-fi/fantasy, including Neil). ''Two'' previous Discworld novels, in fact: she gets an explicit personal dedication in {{G!G!}}. It would seem logical then, that TP is aware of her writing and has perhaps referenced it in the Discworld.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p45)''' '''''Ridcully swayed backwards, like a man subjected to an attack by a hitherto comatose sheep'''''

In the UK House of Commons in June 1978 the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer was Denis Healey.
He described being attacked in June 1978 by mild mannered Conservative shadow Chancellor Geoffrey Howe as ''"like being savaged by a dead sheep".''

Such an attack can be lethal if timed right. The selfsame Sir Geoffrey Howe, formerly a fawning loyalist, lost his temper in 1990 and launched a bitter and scathing speech to a packed Commons that contributed to the downfall of the previously unassailable Margaret Thatcher. Within a fortnight of Howe's attack - again likened to that of a dead sheep - she was gone, deposed as PM.

'''(Harper Paperback, p43)''' '''''most number of goals scored by one man in his whole life is four. That was Dave Likely, of course'''''

Four goals in football was the claim to fame of Al Bundy, of Married with Children (though Bundy's were touchdowns in gridiron football), which has a certain resonance with Trevor Likely's relationship with his father, whom he sees as not valuable apart from his legendary status in football.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p46)''' '''''-How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless Dean'''''

Shakespeare is being paraphrased here. King Lear's furious and anguished speech of betrayal on being (apparently) rejected by an ungrateful child, despite everything he has done for her, in which he at first wishes infertility on her, and then

''If she must teem,''

''Create her child of spleen; that it may live,''

''And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!''

''Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;''

''With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;''

''Turn all her mother's pains and benefits''

''To laughter and contempt; that she may feel''

'''''How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is'''''

'''''To have a thankless child!''''' ''Away, away!''

from '''''King Lear''''' [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/188900.html]

Other Shakeperian references, filtered on the Discworld through the prolific pen of the dwarf [[Hwel]], occur on '''''page 167''''', where Ridcully and Stibbons are considering the ball that goes ''gloing!'' (''There are more things in Heaven and Disc than are dreamed of in our philosophies...'').
And on '''''page 387,''''', where Glenda and Mr Nutt go to the theatre to witness a Hix-suggested production by the [[Dolly Sisters Players]], called '''''Starcrossed''''', also written by Hwel. This not only continues the ''Romeo and Juliet'' motif running through the book, it is explicitly described as ''one of the great romantic plays of the last fifty years''. In our timescale, the Bernstein/Sondheim musical '''''West Side Story''''', where the plot of ''Romeo and Juliet'' is updated to warring city street gangs, was first performed in 1957, making it 52 years old.

I don't think it's pressing things too far to suggest that the evil Dr Hix's love of amateur dramatics might be a sly dig at one CMOT Briggs...

Another piece of Python-esque British humour that can be referenced here is the classic radio comedy sketch performed by the ''Son of Cliché'' troupe (including a very young and pre-Arnold Rimmer comedian called Christopher Barrie), in which the FA Cup final of 1982 is re-written as though it were a Shakesperian play of the heroic ''Henry V'' genre being performed at London's National Theatre.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p.49)''' '''''"Just speak with a little more class, eh? You don't have to sound like--"'''''

'''''"My fare, lady?"'''''

Referring to "My Fair Lady" where street flower seller Eliza Doolittle improves her cockney speech to the point where she's taken for a fine lady at an embassy ball.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p51)''' '''''"Miss Healstether found him a book on scent"'''''. Mr Nutt's early life, education and reception by his peers is reminiscent of that of the character Grenouille in Patrick Süskind's novel '''''Perfume''''', who is similarly scorned, hated, and making his way up (or at least across) from the bottom. It is also worth noting that Grenouille was raised by a priest, for at least part of his life, and was effectively chained to a Hell-like cellar apprenticeship until offered opportunity to better himself. Like Steerpike in Gormenghast, (another literary anti-hero who has a similar early life), Grenouille finally becomes a manipulative monster with a sinister power over people...

'''Football team colours''' - from Wikipedia:-

*The leader in the Giro d'Italia cycle race wears a pink jersey (''maglia rosa''); this reflects the distinctive pink-colored newsprint of the sponsoring Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.
*The University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium visitors' locker room is painted pink. The decor has sparked controversy, perceived by some people as suggesting sexism and homophobia.
* Palermo, a soccer team based in Palermo, Italy, traditionally wears pink home jerseys.

Palermo is also the heart of Mafia and Machismo country, in Sicily: presumably they have transcended the whole pink thing as immaterial.

The Hungarian international strip appears to be red and green with pink trim.

The Liseberg district of Gothenberg in Sweden hosts three soccer clubs. The local city colours are pink and green, which goes back to mediaeval times, but alas none of the three clubs plays in them.

One manufacturer of soccer favours markets a pink-and-green scarf, but regrettably there's no clue as to which club it is associated with.

In many cities in the North of England, in pre-Internet and pre-Sky TV days, there would be a late edition of the Saturday evening paper, carrying nothing but the final sports results of the day, and it would be printed on pink paper. (Except in Sheffield, where for some reason it was the Sporting Green). Pink and Green again...

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p52)''' '''''Miss Healstether sounded bitter. "Stand by then, because he's discovered the [[Bonk School]]."'''''
This is the Discworld equivalent of later German/Austrian philosophers such as Wittgenstein. On Roundworld, the Vienna School is also a collective name used for the emergent psychoanalysts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Freud, Jung and Adler, whose works are often taught in university philosophy departments for want of anywhere less controversial to pigeon-hole them. This leads to several amusingly entertaining associations: given Mr Nutt's later destiny as football team manager, with the more reflective, introverted and philosophical sort of squad boss such as Sven-Göran Eriksson. There are also echoes of famously philosophical players, such as the Manchester United and France star Eric Cantona, an interview with whom could easily befuddle the average back-page journalist, as Cantona was (and is) fond of peppering interviews with philosophical ''apercus''. Also, need we mention the classic Monty Python sketch where the whole of the German and Greek international football teams are made up of their nations' respective star philosophers? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiZt79UKUFQ] The one exception in the German team, who deserves mention for going along with the joke, is the then West German national football team captain Franz Beckenbauer, who appears on the field looking frustrated at the philosophical reflection and lack of football going on around him.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p53)''' '''''"They are the ones who go on about what happens if ladies don't get enough mutton, and they say cigars are--"
"That is a fallacy!"'''''

Sigmund Freud, when asked if his cigar was a phallic symbol, is supposed to have said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

A similar phallus/fallacy joke has appeared in a previous Discworld book in reference to witches' broomsticks.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p67)''' '''''"They're two teams alike in villainy."'''''

Prologue to "Romeo and Juliet" "Two households, both alike in dignity..." It could also be an example of football commentators' random (if sometimes intellectual) phrases...

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p70)''' '''''"But I'm a Face, right?"'''''. Trevor Likely's proud assertion of his status in the ranks of the Dimmers, and his being known throughout all the Boroughs, reflects British soccer hooligan counter-culture where the leaders, best fighters, and other notorious individuals in the various Firms are known as Faces. The term was also used by counter-cultural young male gangs in the 1950's and 1960's: Teddy Boys in the 50's, and Mods and Rockers in the 60's, most notorious gang members and hardest fighters were called Faces. In the latter case - 1960's scooter mods - there is even a musical about it: the Who's rock opera ''Quadrophenia'', about London Mods. The Who also had an early single called called ''I'm the Face'', written for them by their then-manager Peter Meaden, who had also changed their name to The High Numbers. The single, an attempt to appeal to the mod audience, flopped, The High Numbers changed managers again and reverted to being The Who.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p73)''' ''''' 'Gentlemen' Ridcully began ...'or should I say, fellow workers by hand and brain' '''''

'Workers by hand and brain' is a key phrase in original Clause IV for the British Labour Party. This was written by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, leading members of the Fabian Society.

''To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service''

Clause IV was revised (not abolished) in 1995.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p80)'''. With regard to the makeover of Professor Hicks into the University's licensed evil wizard. In his physical description and general attitude, is there a certain sly reference creeping in to the teaching wizards of Slytherin House, in a certain J.K. Rowling's fantasies about a school of wizardry? Or, indeed, to a certain Dark Lord whose name cannot be uttered, save that it most coincidentally also begins with a "V"? And all this is in the context a of a sport which wizards must learn to love (if only to stop their cornucopia drying up and the flow of big dinners ebbing to a trickle.) A sport which most categorically must be played within agreed rules, with no magic ''at all'' being used, which involves getting a resolutely un-magical ball into a goal. Anyone for Quidditch, whoops sorry, Foot-the-Ball? Interestingly, when Ridcully is temporarily possessed by the shade of PE master Evans the Striped, it is Hix who performs a crude but effective exorcism with the knob on the end of his staff. What might Hix be able to reveal about the act of insorcism that put Evans' soul in there in the first place?

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p87)''': ''Glenda would have followed him like a homing vulture'' A reference to ex-Python Michael Palin's gritty slice of Northern working-class life, ''The Testing of Eric Olthwaite'', in which the little-known Northern English sport of racing homing vultures is discussed at great length. It is possible one of Reg Bag's prize homing vultures was called ''Glenda''.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p107)''' '''''"I just happened to be holding a knife. You are holding a knife.We hold knives. This is a kitchen."'''''

Reminiscent of "The Lion in Winter", where Queen Elanor says "Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!"

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p113)''' '''''"Oh, Mr Trevor Likely" said Glenda, folding her arms. "Just one question: who ate all the pies?"'''''

This is a classic chant to be heard across British football grounds. Fans tend to be merciless to a player perceived as having fallen from the pinnacle of physical fitness and to have put weight on, in the form of visible fat. The full chant, aimed at the luckless fat boy, runs: ''Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? '''''You''''' fat bastard, '''''you''''' fat bastard, you ate all the pies!'' (tune: '''Knees up, Mother Brown'''). Footballers thus singled out for dietary advice from the terraces have included England's idiot savant and flawed genius, Paul Gascoigne.

A charming piece of trivia. ''Who ate all the pies?'' is quite possibly the oldest known fan chant to have been continuously sung on English terraces. It was born in honour of {{wp|William_Foulke_(footballer)|William Henry "Fatty" Foulke}}, the legendary Sheffield United goalkeeper whose playing career spanned 1894-1910. Six foot two and a svelte twelve stone at the start of his career, he was an early victim of success and the extravagant professional footballer lifestyle (Edwardian style). By 1902, he was estimated to weigh twenty-five stones (350 pounds) ''and was still playing top-level football.'' His Sheffield United faithful sang it in his honour, albeit without the "you fat bastard" line. You wonder if Terry was aware of this when he wrote the character of the Ankh United goalkeeper, who is seen eating and gorging his way through the big game...
:Rotund, pie-eating keepers are still seen, at least in the National League, but the Association is clamping down...see [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/sports/soccer/wayne-shaw-sutton-soccer-pie.html Wayne Shaw].

'''(Harper Paperback, p118)''' '''''Its surgeons were even known to wash their hands before operating as well as after'''''

This makes the standard of care at Lady Sybil's relatively advanced compared to other Ankh-Morpork technology. Handwashing did not become common in European & American medicine until the second half of the 19th century.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p.122)''' '''''Robert Scandal's famous poem, "Oi! To his Deaf Mistress".'''''

Refers to Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress".

Also '''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p122)''' '''''Nutt was technically an expert on love poetry throughout the ages... he had tried to discuss it with Ladyship, but she had laughed and said that it was frivolity, although quite useful as a tutorial on the art of vocabulary, scansion rhythm, and affect as a means to an end, to wit, getting a young lady to take all her clothes off.'''''

This is suspiciously reminiscent of Sigismundo Celine's reflections on romantic poetry, in guerrilla ontologist Robert Anton Wilson's '''''The historical Illuminatus: The Widow's Son'''''. In which the wunderkind Celine, imprisoned in the Bastille, passes time by reading the prison library. He decides about love poems that

''they mostly argue the case that a Certain Woman is like a certain Natural Phenomenon (sunlight, stars, birds, flowers, et c) and that the poet's heart, in response to this fact, was like another Natural Phenomenon (parched desert, wounded animal, dark cave, et c) and that there was only one natural resolution to this natural conjunction of natural phenomena. He gathered that she would have to take her clothes off.'' (p. 149 R.A.Wilson, '''''The Widow's Son''''', Lynx Books, New York, pub. 1985) For more Wilson and hints on other ways his thoughts and ideas might have filtered through Pratchett's brain and into Discworld, see Reading Suggestions).

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p.124)''' '''''[S]omeone at the Royal Art Museum had found the urn in an old storeroom, and it contained scrolls which, it said here, had the original rules of foot-the-ball laid down in the early years of the century of the Summer Weevil, a thousand years ago, when the game was played in honour of the goddess Pedestriana.'''''

As gods and religion are involved, it may be of note that a similar incident is described in the Bible, specifically in 2 Kings Ch. 22. Supposedly, a "Book of the Law" was found in the Temple, dating back centuries to Moses himself, but which had somehow been lost. As the book described rules that were in the best interests of the Temple and the priests there, scholars who aren't Biblical fundamentalists generally suspect that the ancient book (likely an early version of what we now call Deuteronomy) had been recently composed.

This being the Discworld, this book of rules apparently is ancient ''and'' has just been composed.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p135)''' '''''"Good point, well put," said Ridcully, "and I shall marshal my responses thusly." He flicked a finger and, with a smell of gooseberries and a pop, a small red globe appeared in the air over the table.'''''

Is this a magical powerpoint demonstration?

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p158)''' '''''"Dolly Sisters, right? Sounds like the Botney Street area. I'm sure of it". said Pépé ''''' This is in the crab-bucket discourse, about how people from lowly areas with big ideas are beaten back into thinking small by their peers.

Satirical magazine '''''Private Eye''''' once revealed a secret about BBC Arts supremo, talking head on the gentler, more refined, things in life, and broadcasting giant, Alan Yentob. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Yentob] Although Yentob adamantly denies it, the Eye revealed that he was born in lowly circumstances in East London as Alan ''Botney'', and reversed his surname for professional reasons to make it look more interesting and artsy. Yentob/Botney has refrained, however, from suing the Eye for libel over this assertion. Is this a hidden reason for Terry's naming a street in Lobbin Clout after him?

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p167)''' '''''"You gave the ball a mighty kick, Mister Stibbons, and yet you are, by your own admission, a wet and a weed."'''''
Molesworth, a schoolboy and the narrating character in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans, would consistently refer to his brother, Molesworth 2, as "a wet and a weed."

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p198)''' '''''"Owlspring-Tips diagram"'''''

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzsprung%E2%80%93Russell_diagram Herzsprung-Russell diagram] is used in astronomy to plot the absolute magnitude of stars against their spectral class.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p201)''' '''''"That's right, of course" said the former Dean. "Your father was a butcher, as I recall".'''''
Later on, there is explicit mention of the large, strong, hands Ridcully inherited from his butcher father.
There is a continuity problem here: when Ridcully first enters the series in {{MP}}, it is explicitly said that he became a seventh-level mage at a phenomenally young age, then retired from active Wizarding to return home and run the extensive family estates. Certainly, his demeanour and behaviour is that of the rumbustious country squire who drinks port by the pint and considers slaughtering the wildlife to be a perk of social rank. Such a man would not concern himself with butchering, save in the rough-and-ready method utilised just after a successful hunt. Similarly, a butcher would not normally be expected to kill his animals - in normal circumstances, they arrive freshly killed by somebody else. And to be able to afford large country estates, you would surely need be a ''very successful'' butcher? Something of a problem here, I fear. On '''page 41''', Ridcully's grandfather is first mentioned as a religiously-inclined prizefighter who made musical boxes for a living and who scored two goals against Dimwell ''in one match''. This can be excused and incorporated into the canon without breaking continuity with what we already know about Ridcully - everybody gets two grandfathers, after all. But the wiggle room disappears when his father is described as a city-based butcher and not a country squire.... It is possible that the land comes from his mother's side of the family. Being the offspring of a frowned-upon marriage (highborn lady, lowborn butcher) may well explain some of Ridcully's stubborn attitude.

Also, the book suggests Ridcully was brought up in Ankh-Morpork and his butcher father took him to football matches. This really doesn't square with what we know about the Ridcully brothers from previous books in the series.

However, it is mentioned that not all those experiences were true ones. Ponder, for instance, remembers being taken to see the football by his father despite being raised by an aunt.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p200)''' '''''"You are after the Hat" said Ridcully, flatly.'''''

The rivalry between Mustrum and, er, Henry, crystallises in Henry's offer that the two magical Universities should fight it out on the field of sport, the stake being the [[Archchancellor's Hat]] in which reposes the soul of Wizardry and the essence of many thousands of Archchancellors past. This is made clear in an earlier dialogue on pp197-199.

There is a continuity problem here with events in {{S}}. Having got the Hat out of Ankh-Morpork over to Klatch and therefore temporarily out of reach of the Sourcerer, Rincewind and Conina are imprisoned by the wicked vizier Abrim, who takes the Hat for his own. Abrim then builds a tower and challenges Ankh-Morpork, but owing to intervention by the Luggage, is distracted for just long enough for concentrated magic to blow him, the tower, and most crucially the Hat, into tiny tiny smithereens. After Abrim's destruction, the Hat is never heard of again - it is presumed destroyed, atomized by greater forces. It is certainly not used again as a plot device in {{S}}, and is in the fullness replaced by Ridcully's wilderness-survival Hat: a symbol of a different University with different priorities. Yet on pp225-227, Vetinari discusses the Hat as if it is still in physical existence, none the worse for its trip to Klatch and its last known wearing on the head of a failed wizard who was blasted into his component atoms.

Unless Henry and Mustrum are playing for a purely symbolic Hat (which like the Ashes never leaves London, however often Australia beat England), or the original Hat was included in Coin's promise to the Librarian to restore everything to what it was, as good as old (but it is never mentioned again in the canon, until now?), then it's hard to see anything other than a continuity glitch here.

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p202)''' '''''Ponder Stibbons says "I'm even the Camerlengo, which means that if you drop dead, Archchancellor, from any cause other than legitimate succession under the Dead Man's Pointy Shoes tradition, I run this place until a successor is elected which, given the nature of wizardry, will mean a job for life."'''''

The [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03217a.htm Camerlengo](Italian for "chamberlain) of the Roman Catholic Church is, among other duties, the person in charge of the Vatican between the death of one pope and the election of the next. His job is not normally as exciting as Dan Brown describes it in "Angels and Demons."

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p203)''' '''''"Most of them were old enough to recall at least two pitched battles among factions of wizards, the worst of which had only been brought to a conclusion by Rincewind, wielding a half-brick in a sock..."'''''

As described at the end of ''"Sourcery."''

'''(Harper Collins hardback, US, p224)''' '''''Glenda says "You're giving them Avec. Nearly every dish has got Avec in it, but stuff with Avec in the name is an acquired taste."'''''

"Avec" is the French (and probably restaurant Quirmian) word for "with."

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p251)''' '''''"What is your favourite spoon?"'''''

Pepe has just informed Glenda that a lot of people want to ask Juliet some very important questions, including this one.

The satirical magazine '''''Private Eye''''' carries a "Me and My Spoon" column in every edition, in which a celebrity is quizzed minutely about their favourite spoon. This column is meant as a joke at the expense of those journalists - not always on gossip/trivia magazines of the [[Bu-Bubble]] type - who persist in asking the most vacuous, trivial, and lazy questions of the people they are interviewing. As a sort of foreshadowing of this, Vetinari is seen to be playing with a spoon during the dinner at the University, thoughtfully studying it and the way the varying concavity and convexity of it alters his reflection.

Interestingly, a place-name with an unambiguously Irish ring to it - ''Cladh'' - is introduced here. Until now - with the possible exception of a couple of minor character names - there has not been a hint of anywhere Ireland-like on the Disc, although there is a Wales-like country and a suspiciously Caledonian aura to the NacMac Feegle. Is this a portent for the future? ''Cladh", pronounced "Cla(h)'', may derive from an Irish Gaelic root for "circle" or "ring".

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p272-273)'''
The crowd gathering to witness Nutt in his travail, chained to a bench and fully aware of his Orc-hood for the first time. The named speakers are a Butcher and a Baker. Who are looking upon Nutt, a Candle(stick)maker....

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p282)''' '''''"Is this going to be like the Moving Pictures?"'''''

Given that Dr Hix, via a handy Omniscope, is proposing to replay part of the Battle of '''Orc's Deep''', then the answer may be "yes". This could well be a back handed tribute to the film adaptation of ''{{wp|The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers|The Two Towers}}'', the second in the film trilogy of ''The Lord Of The Rings'' dealing with the battle of Helm's Deep, and introducing Orcs as a potent fighting force. The fact Glenda also remembers the Moving Pictures is significant, as she can be no older than twenty. Doubly interesting, in a city where a convenient group amnesia appears to settle at the end of every fad or fancy... Another (minor) continuity slip occurs here: Hix, acknowledging Glenda's reference to the Moving Pictures, refers to "popcorn", a word unknown on the Disc. Which does, however, have "banged grains" (although - continuity slip within continuity slip! - [[Hwel]] briefly mentions "popcorn" in one of his plays during {{WS}}). The second referent is to the Roundworld battle of Rorke's Drift, but this has already been parodied in an orc-related context by fantasy writer Mary Gentle (in her short story "The Battle of Orc's Drift", the Orcs are surprised and stitched up a treat by an enemy with lots of similarity to the Feegle).

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p314)''' '''''"Was it a football team of Orcs?"''''' By his own admission, Terry Pratchett was once heavily involved in fantasy RPG gaming of the "Dungeons and Dragons" variety. A spin-off from D&D, marketed by the British fantasy gaming and world domination corporation Games Workshop, was called '''''Blood Bowl [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl]'''''. In this, a board game/RPG loosely based on American Football, teams drawn from the various fantasy races played each other, utilising their traditional cultural and racial strengths and weaknesses in a sport combining grace, athleticism, and sadistic brutality. It is difficult to believe TP is not aware of this game, nor of the fact that Orcs, being nearest in temperament and body shape to American footballers, had an inbuilt advantage. It may also be a reference to another game by Games Workshop called Warhammer 40,000; the orcs in this series (here called Orks) are often said to have been based on 'English football hooligans' and serve as a comedy relief race in the setting. It is notable that they would be very enthusiastic about the more brutal form of Ankh-Morpork foot-the-ball.

"Orc's Deep" may also have a second level of allusion, to the famous Roundworld battle of Rorke's Drift. However, ''"The Battle of Orc's Drift"'' has already been done by fantasy writer Mary Gentle. (see above) In her story, the Orcs encounter a faerie race not unlike the Feegle...
and in any case, Terry Pratchett has referenced, although not expanded on, a famous Discworld battle at ''Lawke's Drain'', which may have been in Howondaland.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p320)''' "Fartmeister" Carter has just been badly beaten up by the established villain Andy and his gang, at least in part to send an unmistakable message to Trev Likely. This echoes a scene in the classic gangster film '''''Get Carter''''', in which the local mob, inconvenienced by London gangster Carter's attempts to disrupt them, go gunning for him. They miss Carter (Michael Caine), but console themselves by beating his friend and local ally to a bloody pulp. In this case - Carter has been well and truly got.

"Fartmeister" echoes the case of the star professional footballer let down by a bad choice of best friend, who can so easily become a leech on him. Think of the role played by Jimmy "Two-Bellies" in the drink-related downfall of genuinely gifted flawed legend Paul Gascoigne - an ill-advised best friend who Gascoigne could not bear to lose on becoming famous and who provided embarrassment at best, and career-destroying drunken benders at worst. And the film "Get Carter" is even set in Newcastle, Gascoigne's home town...

And there is also virtually the entire Rooney family, a clan of Liverpool scallies so notorious that the fragrant Coleen wanted to exclude the entire tribe from her wedding to Wayne. (a gifted footballer not known for his physical good looks: there is a certain Orc-like component to Wayne even in a good light).

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p321, 327, 361)''' - Mrs Atkinson - ''..one of the most feared Faces who had ever wielded a sharpened umbrella with malice aforethought.''

This elderly lady, as well as evoking a freelance [[Agony Aunts|Agony Aunt]], is very typical of the hordes of shrieking old ladies who would descend on professional wrestling events* every Saturday to berate, belabour and batter the participants. Eighteen stone muscle-mountains would be scared of them, as a Mrs Atkinson rushing the ring who had deliberately sharpened her umbrella to a point could really ''hurt'' if she jabbed it into the thigh or buttock. Any wrestler thrown out of the ring to land theatrically in among the seated crowd ould not want to be dropped among a group of Atkinsons, who could be relied upon to prod, poke, pinch, kick, stab and spit as he made his shaky way back to the bottom rope. Kendo Nagasaki, a legend among British pro wrestlers, who played the evil baddie role in the ring, is on record as saying he feared nothing so much as a bloodthirsty seventy-year old lady with a sharp umbrella.

* *We are talking about British pro wrestling here, generally a more cheap and cheerful spit-and-sawdust affair than the glitzy and improbable American WWF circuit. This is the sort of contest broadcast live from Dewsbury City Hall at four o'clock on a Saturday, invariably hosted by Kent Walton, while the nation waited for its football results in the 1970's. Ah, great days.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p330)''' - Mr Nutt quotes book title ''The Doors of Deception''. A play on Aldous Huxley's philosophical treatise on using psychedelic drugs to expand the senses - ''The Doors of Perception''. (This also inspired the name of a 60's psychedelic rock band fronted by Jim Morrison, of course).

'''(Harper Paperback, p447)''' '''''"Well, they could give it one hundred and ten percent if they tried harder"..."that would mean that you had just made the one hundred percent bigger"''''' Giving 110% is a standard sports metaphor, but Ponder Stibbons' response is proportionally identical to Marty DiBergi's from This Is Spinal Tap, "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top... number... and make that a little louder?"

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p336)''' Another troubling continuity error emerges concerning Mustrum Ridcully. In {{RM}}, the detail emerges, in the context of a conversation with his brother Hughnon the High Priest, whilst discussing life's little consolations in the face of Mrs Cake, that Hughnon is a teetotaller and cannot for religious reasons touch his brother's emergency brandy (but subsequently does anyway); he then asks Mustrum for a cigarette, and it emerges that his brother is a non-smoker with equally vehement reasons not to touch the blasted things. But here, on pages 338 and 339, after forbidding sex, smokes, strong drink and excess food to the football team, Mustrum is desperately searching his rooms for an emergency cigarette only to discover Mrs Whitlow has hidden them all, in accordance with his wishes. Far from being a non-smoker, Mustrum Ridcully now has at least three stashes of tobacco, rolling paper and cigarettes for emergencies. In the interim since {{RM}}, has Ridcully taken up the evil habit, as might be contractually expected of a senior Wizard? This is a niggling continuity point. (And has been since {{H}}, when Ridcully's pipe is mentioned on three occasions, including the detail that he uses "herbal tobacco" that smells of bonfires; perhaps it's only the regular stuff he objects to.)

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, pp360-62)''' The incident of the banana(s) flung onto the pitch. This reflects the nasty and distasteful racist streak in British football fans as recently as the 1990's, where if a team played a black player (in an overwhelmingly white side) a predominantly white crowd was likely to welcome the black player with massed "ook-ook!" monkey noises, mimed scratching of armpits and flea-picking, and the throwing onto the pitch of many, many, bananas. (One of the earliest black players to join a British team, London's West Ham, made a brave face of it by saying he'd never needed to pay for another banana ever again. West Ham, incidentally, were the preferred side of fictional TV racist Alf Garnett).

Of course a real ape would attract "ook-ook" noises, a stand full of idiots all trying to get away with the m-word in relative safety, and, in this case, a poisoned banana.

This practice has been virtually eradicated in British football (by sanctions including ensuring local greengrocers do not sell bananas to football fans on match days, refusing entry to the ground to those carrying bananas, and making the throwing of them into an ejection/arrestable offence.) But it persists in Europe, especially in Spain.

The final taboo in British football is now beginning to be addressed: up until recently it was seen as a huge joke to verbally belabour gay players as black footballers were before them. (Note the presence in this game of Bengo Macarona, a man who has led indignant ''wives'' to bring divorce actions.) In real life, footballer Justin Fashanu[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fashanu] had it twice over: once for being black, and once for coming out as gay. Fashanu eventually committed suicide. The story is quite shocking from anybody's point of view and is by all accounts typical of the treatment of out gay men in professional sport. Incidentally, Macarona's squad number is "69" for some unfathomable reason. (Although elsewhere we are told the Seamstresses' Guld clacks number is Ankh-Morpork 69, chosen for the advertising associations, this surely must be coincidence...)

Also on page 361: Glenda Sugarbean invents what, if this were {{SM}} and the crowd were gathered for a rock concert, would be called "crowd-surfing" as she descends down from the stands to the pitch. A hazard of crowd-surfing in the mosh-pit for most women would be inadvertent or deliberate groping: Glenda is disappointed that this happens to her not even once.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p366)''' Bledlow Nobbs, a man desperately trying to deny a relationship to Nobby Nobbs of the Watch, is summed up by Trev with "Nobbsy is a clogger at heart."

A member of England's World Cup winning team of 1966 was Manchester United legend Nobby Stiles, an uncompromising defender who had lost all his teeth young, some to natural causes, and who used to disconcert opposing forwards by a toothless gummy grin before he went into tackle. Nobby Stiles was a very definite clogger of the old school.

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p385)''' '''''"You think it's all over?"'''''

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p389)''' '''''"You think it's all over?"'''''

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p397)''' '''''"You think it's all over?"'''''

'''(Doubleday hardback, UK, p400)''' '''''"It is now!"'''''

A reference to the classic BBC commentary at the end of the World Cup Final in 1966, where at Wembley Stadium in London, England beat West Germany 4-2 with the referee unaccountably adding more and more extra time. Kenneth Wolstenholme drily says ''there are some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... [England scores another goal, taking it from 3-2 to 4-2] it is now!'' This piece of British deadpan, where a South American or Italian commentator would have been screaming with excitement, has justly gone down in commentating glory.

As a secondary note, it is commonly believed that the English side winning the World Cup in 1966 occurred in the run-up to a general election. Eventual winner Harold Wilson, an exceedingly sharp Prime Minister more than slightly touched by Vetinari-ish deviousness, who is supposed to have later said that the feelgood factor engendered by the football match was the biggest single decider that elected him back into office. He speculated that had England ''lost'', government change would have been inevitable, for the same superficially irrelevant reason. What would a similar "feelgood factor" do for Lord Vetinari, a man not concerned with mere elections... In reality, the 1966 general election took place in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1966 March], while the World Cup took place in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_World_Cup July], and could not have affected the result.

This was borne out in 1970, where the World Cup Finals actually did coincide with the run-up to an election called by Wilson. Against all expectations, holders England crashed out at a lower stage - to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_FIFA_World_Cup#Quarter-finals West Germany] - and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson duly found himself the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1970 Leader of the Opposition].

'''kitchen maid literature'''

In Dutch, we have an expression 'kitchen maid literature' for the kind of books Glenda reads. I have not been able to ascertain if the same expression also exists in English, but if it does... Of course Glenda is a cook, not a kitchen maid, but still.

'''Juliet the WAG'''

Juliet is, of course, the Discworld's first example of what the UK press refer to as a "WAG" - the 'Wives And Girlfriends' of famous footballers (eg Victoria ('Posh') Beckham). Stereotypically, WAGS are incredibly glamourous but also incredibly vacuous, just like Juliet. The union of a famous footballer (ie Trev Likely) to a fashion model (ie Juliet) is a very typical WAG situation. Trev & Juliet are the Discworld's "Posh & Becks" (Mr & Mrs David Beckham).

[[Category:Annotations|Unseen Academicals]]

Book:Unseen Academicals

2024-08-25T13:14:07Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Unseen Academicals
|cover=[[File:UnseenAcademicals.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=Paul Kidby
|date=13 Oct 2009
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385609340
|pages=320
|rrp=£18.99
|series=Ankh-Morpork Series
|characters=[[Nutt|Mr. Nutt]], [[Trevor Likely]], [[Glenda Sugarbean]], [[Juliet Stollop]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= The 37th Discworld novel and the longest
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==Cover Blurb==
"Football has come to the ancient city of [[Ankh-Morpork]] – not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of [[Unseen University]] must win a football match, without using [[magic]], so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

The prospect of the Big Match draws in [[Trevor Likely|a likely lad]] with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, [[Glenda Sugarbean|a maker]] of jolly good pies, [[Juliet Stollop|a dim but beautiful young woman]] who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr [[Nutt]]. (No one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too.)

As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever.
Because the thing about football – the ''important'' thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!"

==Characters==
===Major Characters===
*[[Glenda Sugarbean]]
*[[Juliet Stollop]]
*[[Trevor Likely]]
*Mr [[Nutt]]
*[[Lord Vetinari]]
*[[Madame Sharn]]
*[[Pepe]]
*[[Andy Shank]]

===Wizards===
*Wizards of Unseen University
**[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
**[[Rincewind]]
**The [[Librarian]]
**[[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]
**[[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]
**[[Senior Wrangler]]
**[[Ponder Stibbons]]
**[[John Hicks|Dr Hix]]
**[[Bengo Macarona]], for clarity it should be noted that merely one person has matriculated as Bengo Macarona.
**[[Professor of Recondite Phenomena]]
**Professor of Illiberal Studies
**Professor Maidenhair
*Wizards of [[Brazeneck College]]
**[[Dean|Archchancellor Henry]]
**[[Adrian Turnipseed]]
**[[Able Baker]]

===Minor Characters===
*Ankh-Morpork United:
**[[Charles Barton]]
**[[F. Brisket]]
**[[H. Capstick]]
**[[Joseph Hoggett]], captain
**[[J. W. Rickett]]
**[[Jimmy Wilkins]]
*[[Mrs. Atkinson]]
*Miss [[Healstether]]
*Doctor [[John Lawn]]
*[[Igor]] at the Lady Sybil Free Hospital
*[[Lady Margolotta]]
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]
*[[Algernon Stollop]]
*[[Furies|The sisters of perpetual velocity]]
*[[William de Worde]]
*[[Glang Snorrisson]]
*[[Rudolph Scattering]]
*[["Fartmeister" Carter]]
*Employees at Unseen University
**Mrs [[Whitlow]]
**[[Natchbull Smeems]], the [[Candle Knave]]
**[[Downbody]]
**[[Bledlow Nobbs]] (no relation)
**[[Frankly Ottomy|Bledlow Ottomy]]
**Bledlow Hipney
**[[Concrete]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
*Sergeant [[Angua]]
*[[J.P. Bunderbell]]
*Herr [[Fassel]]
* [[Frugal]], a philosopher of the [[Bonk School]]
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*Constable [[Haddock]]
*[[Bluejohn]]
*[[Hwel]] the Playwright
*[[Dave Likely]]
*[[Piggy Love]]
* Herr Doktor [[Maspinder]], another philosopher of the [[Bonk School]]
*Ofleberger, a philosopher of the [[Bonk School]]
*Pondlife, a student at UU
*[[Low King]] [[Rhys Rhysson]]
*[[Mr. Shine]]
*[[Martin Sogger]]
*Trousenblert, yet another philosopher of the [[Bonk School]]
*[[Vonmausberger]]. Did we mention he is a philosopher of the [[Bonk School]]?
*[[Dustworthy Swithin]]
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Bill Rincewind]]
*[[Sam Vimes]]
*[[The Luggage]]
*[[Ankh-Morpork Post Office|The Postmaster General]] ([[Moist von Lipwig]])

==Locations==
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**[[Unseen University]]
***The [[Night Kitchen]]
***[[The vats]]
***[[Uncommon Room]]
**[[Dolly Sisters]]
**[[Dimwell]]
**[[Tenth Egg Street]]
**[[The Hippo]]
**[[Lady Sybil Free Hospital]] (mentioned)
**[[Patrician's Palace]]
**[[Shatta]]
**[[Treacle Mine Road]]
*[[Genua]]
*[[Pseudopolis]]
**[[Brazeneck College]]
*[[Sto Lat]]
*[[Uberwald]] (mentioned)
**AKA The [[Evil Empire]] (mentioned)

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Bu-Bubble]]
*[[Cabinet of Curiosity]]
*[[Compendium of Odours]] by Brakefast
*[[Dark War]]
*[[Dictionary of Eye-Watering Words|Discomforting Misusage]], by Birdcatcher
*First Prodostian War, lost by the Maranids
*[[Five Hours and Sixteen Minutes Among The Goblins of Far Uberwald]]
*[[Furies]]
*[[Goblins]]
*[[Grapeshot's Therapeutic Squeezer]]
*[[Hex]]
*Hunt the [[Megapode]]
*[[Micromail]]
*[[Orcs]]
*[[Pex]] (mentioned)
*[[Retribushium]]
*[[Ritual Aggression in Pubescent Rats]]
*[[The Shove]]
*[[Slood]]
*[[The Speech of Trolls]] by Postalume
*The [[Ankh-Morpork Times]]
*[[Trespassers' Society]] of Ankh-Morpork
*[[Trumpet of Equestrianism]] by Spout
*[[We Can Rule You Wholesale]]
*[[Beauty Arising from the Pease Pudding Cart Attended by Cherubs Carrying Hot Dogs and Pies]]
*The whistle of [[Evans the Striped]]
*[[Blit]]
*[[Crab Bucket]]

==Foot-the-ball sides==
* The Angels
*[[Dimmers|Dimwell Old Pals]]
*[[Dollies|Dolly Sisters Football Club]]
*Unseen Academicals
*Ankh-Morpork United
*Treacle Mine Tuesday ("the Miners")
*Cockbill Boars
*Pigsty Hill [[Pork Packers]]
*Naphill United
*Whopping Street Wanderers ("the Whoppers")
*Lobbin Clout

==Gameday Iconograph==
[[Image:UnseenAcademicals10.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]
'''Lineup'''
*Front: [[Librarian]]
*First Row, from left: [[The Luggage]]-The [[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]- Mr. [[Nutt]]
*Seated: Dr. [[John Hicks|Hix]]-[[Ponder Stibbons]]-The [[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]-[[Trevor Likely]]
*Standing: [[Glenda Sugarbean]]-[[Senior Wrangler]]-[[Bengo Macarona]]-[[Mustrum Ridcully]]-[[Rincewind]]-[[Havelock Vetinari]]-[[Juliet Stollop]]

==Roundworld comparisons==
That {{wp|Shakespeare|hack from Stratford-on Avon}} wrote a {{wp|Romeo and Juliet|play about horny teenagers in Verona}}, Italy. This Discworld story centers on horny teenagers (well, not Glenda) who are fans of different foot-the-ball sides, but then again it doesn't.
The name Dimwell seems close to Millwall, area and football club in London noted for the belligerence of their supporters.
Uberwald is a roundworld reference to Germany. The orcs are symbolic for modern Germans. All books that Nutt cites have German titles. Today, Germans have problems with their place in history, because of their role in the war, just like the orcs, even several generations afterwards. Uberwald actually translates as over the forest as does Transylvania. The books have German titles because Freud is the father of psychology.

==Adaptations==
===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
Adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]] into a stage play in 2015.

===[[Radio Adaptations|Audio Drama]]===
Adapted into an audio drama for Amazon Audible by Richard Curtie and Bev Doyle, directed by Dirk Maggs, in partnership with [[Narrativia (production_company)|Narrativia]] in 2018.

==See also==
[[Book:Unseen Academicals/Annotations|Annotations for ''Unseen Academicals'']]

[[The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards]]

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Quirmian Phrases

2024-08-25T11:06:05Z

Myk Streja: Added another phrase

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Quirmian]] is used by particular individuals to make excruciating puns.

* ''Au Revoir'' - lit. "to the seeing again"; a Quirmian [[Wikipedia:Parting phrase|parting phrase]]
* ''Amour Propre'' - "self esteem" - "…regained their amour propre in their proper armor…" ({{T!}})
* ''Chemin-de-fer'' - "The Iron Road" - The Railway. (According to [[Effie King]], it's also a card game.)
* ''Dans Une Certaine Condition'' - "In A Certain Condition" - in reference to lycanthropy ({{MAA}})
* ''Derriere Velocite'' - "Bum's Rush" - Forcible ejection from an establishment ({{MAA}})
* ''Droit De Seigneur'' - "[[Wikipedia:Droit du seigneur|the right of the lord]]"
* ''Fait Accompli'' - "An Accomplished Fact" ({{RS}})
* ''Grand Prix des Idiots Blithering'' - the "Grand Prize of the Blithering Idiots," an award given to the most accomplished Fool at the [[Fools' Guild]] in Ankh-Morpork each year, represented by honorary cap and bells. ({{WS}})
* ''Guy de Norde'' - a celebrated architect who gave his name to the main railway station in Quirm city.
* ''Le Mot Juste'' - "The Right Word (In The Right Place" - [[de Worde|de Worde]] family Motto
* ''Lèse Majesté'' - "[[Wikipedia:Lèse-majesté|offense to majesty]]"
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the [[roundworld]] phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Mon Repos'' - "my place of rest" - ({{T!}}) - (see also [[Death's Domain]]).
* ''Noblesse Oblige'' - "Nobility Obliges".
* ''Nom d'une bouilloire! Pourquoi est-ce que je suis hardiment ri sous cape à par les dieux?'' - "Holy crap! Why am I laughed at by the gods?" (roughly translated) -- less a phrase and more a lamentation by the chef Aimsbury about his allergy to the word "garlic" ({{MM}})
* ''Pas Devant Les Soldat Jeune'' - lit. "Not in front of the young soldiers"; recalls a common adult admonition, "Not in front of the children." ({{MR}})
* ''Pas Devant Le Gendarme'' - lit. "Not in front of the police"; "You have the right to remain silent…" ({{MM}})
* ''Touché'' - "touched" (fencing)

==See also==
* [[Latatian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Quirmian Phrases

2024-08-24T23:01:58Z

Myk Streja: Colloquial Quirmian translation

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Quirmian]] is used by particular individuals to make excruciating puns.

* ''Au Revoir'' - lit. "to the seeing again"; a Quirmian [[Wikipedia:Parting phrase|parting phrase]]
* ''Amour Propre'' - "self esteem" - "…regained their amour propre in their proper armor…" ({{T!}})
* ''Chemin-de-fer'' - "The Iron Road" - The Railway. (According to [[Effie King]], it's also a card game.)
* ''Dans Une Certaine Condition'' - "In A Certain Condition" - in reference to lycanthropy ({{MAA}})
* ''Derriere Velocite'' - "Bum's Rush" - Forcible ejection from an establishment ({{MAA}})
* ''Droit De Seigneur'' - "[[Wikipedia:Droit du seigneur|the right of the lord]]"
* ''Fait Accompli'' - "An Accomplished Fact" ({{RS}})
* ''Grand Prix des Idiots Blithering'' - the "Grand Prize of the Blithering Idiots," an award given to the most accomplished Fool at the [[Fools' Guild]] in Ankh-Morpork each year, represented by honorary cap and bells. ({{WS}})
* ''Guy de Norde'' - a celebrated architect who gave his name to the main railway station in Quirm city.
* ''Le Mot Juste'' - "The Right Word (In The Right Place" - [[de Worde|de Worde]] family Motto
* ''Lèse Majesté'' - "[[Wikipedia:Lèse-majesté|offense to majesty]]"
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the [[roundworld]] phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Mon Repos'' - "my place of rest" - ({{T!}}) - (see also [[Death's Domain]]).
* ''Noblesse Oblige'' - "Nobility Obliges".
* ''Nom d'une bouilloire! Pourquoi est-ce que je suis hardiment ri sous cape à par les dieux?'' - "Holy crap! Why am I laughed at by the gods?" (roughly translated) -- less a phrase and more a lamentation by the chef Aimsbury about his allergy to the word "garlic" ({{MM}})
* ''Pas Devant Les Soldat Jeune'' - lit. "Not in front of the young soldiers"; recalls a common adult admonition, "Not in front of the children." ({{MR}})
* ''Touché'' - "touched" (fencing)

==See also==
* [[Latatian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Book:Making Money

2024-08-24T03:10:59Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Making Money
|cover=[[File:Cover Making Money.jpg|thumb|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=Paul Kidby
|date=20th September 2007
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385611015
|pages=352
|rrp=
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books
|characters=[[Moist von Lipwig]], [[Adora Belle Dearheart]]
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==Blurb==
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s [[Ankh-Morpork Mint|Royal Mint]] and the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork|bank]] next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man [[Moist von Lipwig]] is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The [[Mavolio Bent|Chief Cashier]] is almost certainly a [[vampires|vampire]]. There's [[Glooper|something nameless in the cellar]] (and the [[Fornication|cellar itself is pretty nameless]]), it turns out that the [[currency|Royal Mint]] runs at a loss. A [[Flead|300 year old wizard]] is after his [[Adora Belle Dearheart|girlfriend]], he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the [[Assassins' Guild]] might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh... and every day he has to take the [[Mr Fusspot|Chairman]] for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is... Making Money!

==Plot==
[[Moist von Lipwig]] is content but slightly bored with his successful leadership of the [[Ankh-Morpork Post Office]]. [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] offers him the job of running the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] and the [[Ankh-Morpork Mint]]. Moist visits both places, where he meets [[Mavolio Bent]], the Chief Cashier and the bank's chairman [[Topsy Lavish]]. Lavish deduces that Moist is a crook and thus takes a liking to him, but after leaving Moist decides to refuse the job offer. A short while afterwards, Lavish dies and the majority of shares in the bank are inherited by her dog [[Mr Fusspot]], making him the chairman. She has also specified in her will that Moist should ensure Mr Fusspot carries out his duties correctly and that the [[Assassins' Guild]] would enforce this contract, effectively forcing Moist to run the bank.

Moist is met with several challenges in office. The Royal Mint is operating at a ''loss'' because the metal required to produce the coins costs more than their actual value. Because the official currency is weak, many people have taken to using Post Office stamps as coins instead. He tries to reform the currency by introducing [[Paper Money]]. This brings him into conflict with both Bent and the wealthy Lavish family who try to dispose of him without success. [[Cosmo Lavish]] goes a step further and tries to replace Vetinari by taking on his identity, but fails.

Meanwhile, [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] has been working to uncover several golems from the ruins of the ancient city of [[Um]]. She succeeds in ordering them to travel to Ankh-Morpork, but due to a translation error, it is discovered that instead of sending "four golden golems", she is sending four thousand golems. This would potentially trigger a war with the neighbouring city states, who would be threatened by the 4,000 golems. Moist discovers the secret to controlling the golems and orders them to bury themselves on the outskirts of the city, except for a few that will be used for manual labour. He realises that the golems will prove a much better foundation for the currency than gold and thus introduces the 'golem standard'. A clacks message is then sent out to other cities to explain how to control the golems, to ensure that they cannot be used for warfare.

At the end of the book, Vetinari notes that the Chief Tax Collector is approaching retirement age and may soon need replacing.

==Characters==
* '''Major characters'''
** [[Moist von Lipwig]], Postmaster General and Vice Chairman of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork.
** [[Adora Belle Dearheart]], fiancee of Moist and manager of the [[Golem Trust]]
** [[Mr Fusspot]], Chairman of the Bank
** Lord [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]], Patrician
** Mr [[Mavolio Bent]], Chief Cashier of the Bank
** [[Cosmo Lavish]], a director of the Bank
** Rev [[Cribbins]], villain with impressive teeth

* '''Minor characters'''
** [[Owlswick Jenkins]], artist, presumed to be hangèd
** [[Hubert Turvy]], economist
** [[Pucci Lavish]], member of the [[Lavishes|Lavish family]]
** [[Gladys]], a gender confused golem
** [[Drumknott]], Vetinari's secretary
** [[Igor#Igor at the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork|Igor]], Hubert Turvy's assistant
** Mr [[Shady]], the hereditary foreman of the Mint
** [[Topsy Lavish]], nee Turvy, Chairman of the Bank
** [[Death]], you know who
** [[Stanley Howler]], Head of Stamps
** [[Heretofore]], Cosmo Lavish's secretary
** "Professor" [[Cranberry]], Cosmo Lavish's Assassin
** [[Ribcage Jack]], associate of Professor Cranberry
** Mr. [[Slant]], Ankh Morpork's premier lawyer (and zombie)
** Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]], of the Watch
** Sergeant [[Fred Colon]], of the Watch
** Sergeant [[Angua von Überwald]], of the Watch
** [[Sacharissa Cripslock]], reporter from The Times
** [[Aimsbury]], [[Mr Fusspot]]'s cook
** [[Peggy]], Aimsbury's daughter
** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]], sausage purveyor
** [[Harry King]], the king of golden river
** [[Evadne Cake|Mrs. Cake]], landlady
** [[Bellyster]], prison guard
** Mr [[Spools]], prínter of the firm [[Teemer and Spools]]
** [[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]
** [[Ponder Stibbons]], a wizard
** Dr [[John Hicks]], head of the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]], ('''''not''''' a necromancer)
** Professor [[Flead]], deceased necromancer
**[[Barnsforth]] a student wizard, soon to be a Doctor of Post-Mortem Communications following some terse negotiation;
**[[Goatly]] another student wizard soon to become a Doctor;
** [[Hammersmith Coot]], a junior bank clerk
** Miss [[Drapes]], assistant to Mavolio Bent
** [[Ludmilla Cake]], Mrs Cake's daughter
** [[Robert Spittle]], a bank clerk
** Ms [[Berenice Houser]], clerk at the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]]
**[[Grace Speaker]], an otherwise blameless woman who runs a petfood shop, who attracts [[Vetinari]]'s attention.
** Constable [[Haddock]], of the Watch
** Sergeant [[Detritus]], of the Watch
** Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], of the Watch
** [[Anoia]], Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers
** Commander [[Samuel Vimes]], of the Watch
** Lord [[Downey]], head of the [[Assassins' Guild]]
** Dr. [[Whiteface]], head of the [[Fools' Guild]]

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Cabinet of Curiosity]]
*[[Glooper|The Glooper]]
*[[Exclusive Possession|Monopoly]]

==Adaptations==
===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
Adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]] into a stage play in 2011.

==Gallery==
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| valign="top" | [[File:MM CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:MM US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:MM Notes.jpg|thumb|180px|Promotional Banknotes]]
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Making Money]]
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Series|Making Money]]
[[Category:Making Money|Making Money]]
[[de:Buch:Schöne Scheine]]

Pictsies

2024-08-24T03:06:55Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Wikilink

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - Human beings.
* Big Man - Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - Rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - To be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - A weak person.
* Carlin - An old woman, witch or not.
* Cack yer kecks - Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.
* Cludgie - The privy.
* Coo - Cow.
* [[Crawstep]] - Used by pictsies to travel magically between worlds but not within them. For that purpose, they say, they have "feets."
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - Do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Een - Eyes.
* Eldritch - Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.
* Fash - Worry, upset.
* Geas - A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
* [[Gonnagle]] - The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
* Hag - Witch.
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch. (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - Secrets.
* [[Kelda]] - The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it.
* Ken - Know.
* Lang syne - Long ago.
* Last World - The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
* Midden - Combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired…or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Schemie - An unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Scuggers - Leg warmers. (Like socks wi'oot feets.)
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Ships - Woolly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Easily confused with the other kind.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* [[Special Sheep Liniment]] - Probably moonshine whisky.
* Spog - A leather pouch, worn on the front of a Feegle's belt.
* Steamie - Found only in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there’s enough water to allow regular bathing; it’s a kind of sauna.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Crawstep

2024-08-24T03:05:33Z

Myk Streja: Added Crawstep

Pictsies

2024-08-24T01:32:16Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Crawstep

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - Human beings.
* Big Man - Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - Rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - To be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - A weak person.
* Carlin - An old woman, witch or not.
* Cack yer kecks - Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.
* Cludgie - The privy.
* Coo - Cow.
* Crawstep - Used by pictsies to travel magically between worlds but not within them. For that purpose, they say, they have "feets."
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - Do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Een - Eyes.
* Eldritch - Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.
* Fash - Worry, upset.
* Geas - A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
* [[Gonnagle]] - The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
* Hag - Witch.
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch. (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - Secrets.
* [[Kelda]] - The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it.
* Ken - Know.
* Lang syne - Long ago.
* Last World - The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
* Midden - Combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired…or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Schemie - An unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Scuggers - Leg warmers. (Like socks wi'oot feets.)
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Ships - Woolly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Easily confused with the other kind.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* [[Special Sheep Liniment]] - Probably moonshine whisky.
* Spog - A leather pouch, worn on the front of a Feegle's belt.
* Steamie - Found only in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there’s enough water to allow regular bathing; it’s a kind of sauna.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Pictsies

2024-08-23T20:04:08Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Dialect

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - Human beings.
* Big Man - Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - Rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - To be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - A weak person.
* Carlin - An old woman, witch or not.
* Cack yer kecks - Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.
* Cludgie - The privy.
* Coo - Cow.
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - Do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Een - Eyes.
* Eldritch - Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.
* Fash - Worry, upset.
* Geas - A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
* [[Gonnagle]] - The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
* Hag - Witch.
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch. (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - Secrets.
* [[Kelda]] - The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it.
* Ken - Know.
* Lang syne - Long ago.
* Last World - The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
* Midden - Combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired…or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Schemie - An unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Scuggers - Leg warmers. (Like socks wi'oot feets.)
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Ships - Woolly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Easily confused with the other kind.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* [[Special Sheep Liniment]] - Probably moonshine whisky.
* Spog - A leather pouch, worn on the front of a Feegle's belt.
* Steamie - Found only in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there’s enough water to allow regular bathing; it’s a kind of sauna.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Pictsies

2024-08-23T20:02:41Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Scuggers

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - Human beings.
* Big Man - Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - Rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - To be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - A weak person.
* Carlin - An old woman, witch or not.
* Cack yer kecks - Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.
* Cludgie - The privy.
* Coo - Cow.
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - Do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Een - Eyes.
* Eldritch - Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.
* Fash - Worry, upset.
* Geas - A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
* [[Gonnagle]] - The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
* Hag - Witch.
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch. (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - Secrets.
* [[Kelda]] - The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it.
* Ken - Know.
* Lang syne - Long ago.
* Last World - The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
* Midden - Combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired…or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Schemie - An unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Scuggers - Leg warmers. (Like socks wi'out feets.)
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Ships - Woolly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Easily confused with the other kind.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* [[Special Sheep Liniment]] - Probably moonshine whisky.
* Spog - A leather pouch, worn on the front of a Feegle's belt.
* Steamie - Found only in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there’s enough water to allow regular bathing; it’s a kind of sauna.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Pictsies

2024-08-23T14:08:58Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Added some more; general maintenance

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - Human beings.
* Big Man - Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - Rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - To be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - A weak person.
* Carlin - An old woman, witch or not.
* Cack yer kecks - Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.
* Cludgie - The privy.
* Coo - Cow.
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - Do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Een - Eyes.
* Eldritch - Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.
* Fash - Worry, upset.
* Geas - A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
* [[Gonnagle]] - The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
* Hag - Witch.
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch. (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - Secrets.
* [[Kelda]] - The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it.
* Ken - Know.
* Lang syne - Long ago.
* Last World - The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
* Midden - Combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired…or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Schemie - An unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Ships - Woolly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Easily confused with the other kind.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* [[Special Sheep Liniment]] - Probably moonshine whisky.
* Spog - A leather pouch, worn on the front of a Feegle's belt.
* Steamie - Found only in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there’s enough water to allow regular bathing; it’s a kind of sauna.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Rob Anybody

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{{Character Data
|title= Rob Anybody
|photo= Blank.jpg|
|name= Rob Anybody
|age=
|race= [[Pictsies|Pictsie]]

|occupation= Big Man
|appearance= Small, blue, with red hair. Wears a kilt.

|residence= Chalk Hill, [[The Chalk]]

|death= As a pictsie, he believes he's already dead, but he has not yet returned to the last world.
|parents=
|relatives= brothers [[Daft Wullie]], [[Big Yan]], [[Hamish]], and [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]]. sister [[Fion]].
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Jeannie]]

|books=appeared in all [[:Category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany Aching books]] so far.
|cameos=
}}

The [[Big Man]] of the [[Chalk Hill Clan]], Rob Anybody Feegle carries a large sword, which glows blue in the presence of lawyers. He wears an animal skull helmet, which he twiddles when he is nervous.

The toughest and bravest of all the Clan, his brothers include [[Daft Wullie]], [[Big Yan]], [[Hamish]], and [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]]. He also has a sister, [[Fion]]. As is normal for Pictsies of the Chalk Hill Clan (except [[Gonnagle]]s) he is afraid of lawyers and words in general. When he marries [[Jeannie]], a feegle from the [[Long Lake Clan]], however, she makes him learn to read and write. While a [[Pictsies|Pictsie]] tends to solve every problem by rushing in and fighting, shouting, drinking anything that looks vaguely alcoholic (turpentine/rat poison/lamp oil etc.) and stealing anything not nailed down (of course this doesn't stop them as they simply steal the nails as well), Rob is learning to use his skull for something other than nutting whatever gets in his way and is actually pretty intelligent when needed, despite the brains often being saved up for female pictsies. When trying to fight the [[Hiver]]'s attempt to take over [[Tiffany Aching]]'s mind, Rob, with help, manages to come up with a pretty good PLN (plan) to trap the Hiver in the one place it would be vulnerable and then fight it.

He is the unofficial guardian and protector of Tiffany Aching.

==Annotation==

The sword that glows blue in the presence of lawyers is a direct reference to {{wp|Sting_(Middle-earth)#Sting|Sting}}, the Elven sword bequeathed to Frodo by his uncle Bilbo Baggins in Tolkien's ''{{wp|The_Lord_of_the_Rings|The Lord of the Rings}}'', which used to glow blue in the presence of orcs.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Anybody, Rob]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Anybody,Rob]]
[[de:Rob Irgendwer Größter]]

Book:Wintersmith

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{{Book Data
|title=Wintersmith
|cover=[[File:Cover Wintersmith.JPG|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=28 Sep 2006
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385609845
|pages=352
|rrp=
|series=Tiffany Series
|characters=[[Tiffany Aching]], the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], [[Granny Weatherwax]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=The third [[Tiffany Aching]] book and the first Discworld novel to appear in a year.
}}
==Blurb==
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...

But the Wintersmith isn't "exactly" a boy. He is Winter itself - snow, gales, icicles - all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.

Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax.

"Crivens!" Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland - whether she wants it or not.

It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring -

Spring won't come.

==Main Characters==
*[[Tiffany Aching]]
*[[Wintersmith]]
*[[Summer Lady]]
*[[Roland]]
*[[Eumenides Treason|Miss Treason]]
*[[Granny Weatherwax]]
*[[Nanny Ogg]]
*[[Perspicacia Tick]]
*[[Letice Earwig]]
*[[Annagramma Hawkin]]
*[[Petulia Gristle]]
*[[Pictsies|Feegles: The Chalk Hill Clan]]

==Other Characters and Cameos==
*[[Anoia]]
*[[Baron|The Baron of the Chalk]]
*[[Wotua Doinov]]
*[[Gwinifer Blackcap]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Tolliver Groat]]
*[[Dimity Hubbub]]
*[[Pullunder|Miss Pullunder]]
*[[Lucy Warbeck]]
*[[Danuta|Aunt Danuta]]
*[[Araminta|Aunt Araminta]]

==Locations==
*[[Ramtops]]
*[[Lancre]]
**[[Lancre Town]]
*[[The Chalk]]
**[[Twoshirts]]
*[[Limbo]]

==Things and Concepts==
* [[Cornucopia]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:Cover Wintersmith.JPG|thumb|110px|First Edition Cover by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof-US]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W Slip.jpg|thumb|110px|Slipcase Collectors Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W BM.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by Bill Mayer]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:W Kidby.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 'Tiffany' cover by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W Gift.jpg|thumb|110px|Gift Edition 2017]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W YA.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by Laura Ellen Anderson]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:W 2023.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2023]]
|}

{{series|series=Discworld|before=Thud!|after=Making Money}}
{{series|series=Tiffany|before=A Hat Full of Sky|after=I Shall Wear Midnight}}

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[[Category:Tiffany Series]]
[[Category:Children's books]]

Quirmian Phrases

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Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Quirmian]] is used by particular individuals to make excruciating puns.

* ''Au Revoir'' - lit. "to the seeing again"; a Quirmian [[Wikipedia:Parting phrase|parting phrase]]
* ''Amour Propre'' - "self esteem" - "…regained their amour propre in their proper armor…" ({{T!}})
* ''Chemin-de-fer'' - "The Iron Road" - The Railway. (According to [[Effie King]], it's also a card game.)
* ''Dans Une Certaine Condition'' - "In A Certain Condition" - in reference to lycanthropy ({{MAA}})
* ''Derriere Velocite'' - "Bum's Rush" - Forcible ejection from an establishment ({{MAA}})
* ''Droit De Seigneur'' - "[[Wikipedia:Droit du seigneur|the right of the lord]]"
* ''Fait Accompli'' - "An Accomplished Fact" ({{RS}})
* ''Grand Prix des Idiots Blithering'' - the "Grand Prize of the Blithering Idiots," an award given to the most accomplished Fool at the [[Fools' Guild]] in Ankh-Morpork each year, represented by honorary cap and bells. ({{WS}})
* ''Guy de Norde'' - a celebrated architect who gave his name to the main railway station in Quirm city.
* ''Le Mot Juste'' - "The Right Word (In The Right Place" - [[de Worde|de Worde]] family Motto
* ''Lèse Majesté'' - "[[Wikipedia:Lèse-majesté|offense to majesty]]"
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the [[roundworld]] phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Mon Repos'' - "my place of rest" - ({{T!}}) - (see also [[Death's Domain]]).
* ''Noblesse Oblige'' - "Nobility Obliges".
* ''Nom d'une bouilloire! Pourquoi est-ce que je suis hardiment ri sous cape à par les dieux?'' - "Name of a kettle! Why am I boldly chuckled at by the gods?" (roughly translated) -- less a phrase and more a lamentation by the chef Aimsbury about his allergy to the word "garlic" ({{MM}})
* ''Pas Devant Les Soldat Jeune'' - lit. "Not in front of the young soldiers"; recalls a common adult admonition, "Not in front of the children." ({{MR}})
* ''Touché'' - "touched" (fencing)

==See also==
* [[Latatian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Chrysoprase

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{{Character Data
|title= CHRYSOPRASE
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Chrysoprase
|age= unknown
|race= Troll

|occupation= 'Legitimate Businessman'
|appearance= Less craggy than most trolls, quite well polished.
|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=nephew [[Jasper Chrysoprase|Jasper]]
|children=
|marital status=

|books= {{T!}}, {{WS}}, {{FOC}}, {{TLF}}
|cameos= {{TT}}
}}

'''Chrysoprase''' (also known as '''Krysoprase''' in {{TLF}}, '''Chrystophrase''' in {{WS}}, and Chrysophrase in {{T!}}) is the ''de facto'' leader of the [[trolls]] disorganisation, the [[Breccia]]. Generally accompanied by several of his thugs (not henchmen, they're not smart enough to hench), Chrysoprase is a feared and well-known presence in [[Ankh-Morpork]].

In the revealed outline for {{SFT}}, we learn that he was, as a pebble, a [[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation|Boy Scout]], as Trolls understand the word. As a respectable businesstroll and community representative engaged in good works and charitable donations, he is keen to sponsor an expanded operation with a similar philosophy, aimed at the young people of all sentient races. This is despite the origins of the movement lying in the age-old [[Koom Valley|animosity]] between Trolls and Dwarfs.

Recently, Chrysoprase has been moving out of the troll-drug trafficking trade (in {{FOC}}), and into "property and financial services" (in {{T!}}), or so he claims. To his merit, he dislikes trolls fighting among themselves (he'd rather have them all working together and fighting dwarfs - later on, he appears to disapprove of even the latter, going out of his way to show that he has nothing to do with the rabble-rousing towards dwarf/troll conflict, on the grounds that it is bad for business), and has great belief in showing respect (particularly to him). Disrespectful thugs rapidly become rockeries and jewellery. He also respects [[Commander Vimes]] for being unbribable and honest.

Chrysoprase also owns The [[Cavern]], a nightclub frequented by the cooler types of humans and the nastier types of trolls. He also wears suits, a rare idiosyncrasy for a troll. They fit badly, but that's what happens when trolls wear suits.

It has been rumored that the diamond jewelry that Chrysoprase wears is made from the teeth of other troll gangsters "who have come second in their business dealings with him" (see {{TDC}}).

The name Chrysoprase has been given in the fine tradition of naming trolls after minerals, rocks, gemstones, or other geological formations. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysoprase Chrysoprase] is an apple-green to dark green variety of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony chalcedony] (a fibrous rock composed of quartz). It is one of the most prized varieties of quartz. This may also be a reference to his role as a "ton" as both the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chrysoprase parts that make up his name] are associated with money.

Chrysoprase has a named nephew, [[Jasper Chrysoprase]], famed as the first Troll pupil to be accepted by the [[Assassins' Guild]] School.

[[Image:Mr_chrysoprase_is_upset.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Trouble Brewin'''', as drawn by Matt Smith]]

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Template:TDC

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<includeonly>''[[Book:The Discworld Companion|The Discworld Companion]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|TDC]]
</noinclude>

Template:SFT

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<includeonly>''[[Book:Scouting for Trolls|Scouting for Trolls]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|SFT]]
</noinclude>

Latatian Phrases

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Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cogito Ergo Sum'' - "I exist, therefore I do sums" -- personal motto of Commander Vimes' GooseberryTM imp. (orig. "I think, therefore I am")
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] ({{J}}) and [[Carcer]] ({{NW}}).
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Alea Jacta Est'' - "The Die Is Cast": Can't stop now. (Die is the singular form of dice; cast means to throw) ({{HFOS}})
* ''Alma Pater'' - lit. "Fostering Father" - Unseen University's version of [[wikipedia:Alma mater|''alma mater'']]. ({{GP}})
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) - "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potet'' - "''One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do''" - An ancient and famous volume mentioned in {{HFOS}}.
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ({{WFM}})
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" - See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Book:Death's Domain

2024-08-22T13:40:59Z

Myk Streja: Returned to original format

'''''For the place see [[Death's Domain]]'''''
{{Book Data
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|cover=[[File:Death Mapp.jpg|240px]]
|coauthors=[[Paul Kidby]]
|illustrator=[[Paul Kidby]]
|publisher=Corgi
|date=May 1999
|isbn=0552146722
|pages=32
|rrp=£4.99
|series=Maps
|characters=
|annotations=
|notes=
}}
==Blurb==
The house that [[Death]] built...and the garden too.

'''DEATH'S DOMAIN'''

It's no more than a breath away...

Everyone needs a place to relax after a long day, after all. So here is the place where the Grim Reaper can kick back and take the load off his scythe. Here's the golf course that's not so much crazy as insane, and the useless maze, and the dark gardens - all brought (incongruously) to life. And here, for the first time ever, you will find out the reason why Death can't understand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.

As Death rides [[Binky]] into the sunset (of other people's lives), you can at last see what he gets up to when he's not at work.

==About the mapp==
The authors have gone through the books mentioning Death's home (''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]''), collected all information and tried the impossible, namely to map an impossible place. The map does not show the interior of Death's house, because the size of the rooms is more or less optional to the inhabitants. Instead the grounds are shown including such places as the famous maze, the golf course (with space time anomalies) and the lawn of pitiless infinity and tennis. The color of the map is mainly purple with shades of black and ivory.

Like all the other maps ''[[Death's Domain]]'' is great at bringing back the memories one had while reading the original books. Unlike the other maps, however, it is not intended to be an orientation for a certain area on the Disc. Whereas it can be great to have ''[[The Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]'' lying besides you while reading any books of the [[:Category:Watch Series|Watch Series]], Death's Domain is more a collection of Discworld facts combined with some great artwork by Paul Kidby.

==The Key==
# The Hill(s) of Night
# The Gazebo (Death thought it sounded interesting and was quite disappointed to find that it wasn't [[Wikipedia:Gazelle|some kind of antelope]])
# The Winter Garden
# The Stream of Unconsciousness
# Bee Hives
# Orchard
# [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan's]] Swing
# The Chicken Arks of Regular Eggs (Real Chickens, and [[Albert]] insisted that shouldn't be allowed to go skeletal, because they would look very strange when they lay)
# Well of Souls
# The Wood of Silence (good for Primroses)
# The bridge of just being useful to cross the stream (of Unconsciousness)
# The Maze of Unforgetfulness
# The Lawn of Pitiless Infinity and Tennis
# The Formal Pond Garden of Dreadful Night
# Rose Garden
# Technically the [[Wikipedia:Parterre|Parterre Garden]], bus generally known as 'the Knobbly Bush Garden'
# Stables (home of [[Binky]] and [[Ysabell|Ysabell's pony]])
# Flower Garden
# The Vegetable Garden of all Climates and Seasons
# Potting Shed
# The [[Wikipedia:Pineapple pit|Pineapple Pit]]
# Albert's Compost Heaps
# [[Wikipedia:Topiary|Topiary]] Garden
# Albert's Workshop
# The Wheel of Albert's Laundry
# The Unimpressive and Rather Small Ravine
# [[Wikipedia:Grindstone|Grindstone]]
# Non-temporal multi-spacial Crazy Golf
# The Lawn of Eternal Wandering and [[Wikipedia:Croquet|Crocuet]]
# [[Wikipedia:Sundial|Sundial]] of Uselessness
# The Pointy Tree Avenue
# The Boating Lake
# Boat House
# The very dull and authentic [[Wikipedia:Rockery|rockery]]
# Ornamental Fish Pond
# Lily Beds

==Characters==
* [[Death]]
* [[Albert]]
* [[Death of Rats]]

==Other stuff==
* Fourth map in the series of Discworld mapps
* Originally published in Great Britain by Corgi. Copyright (c) 1999 by Terry Pratchett / [[Paul Kidby]]. 
* Black and white illustrations and map artwork by Paul Kidby

[[Category:Maps|Death's Domain]]
[[de:Buch:Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp]]

Book:Death's Domain

2024-08-22T13:38:21Z

Myk Streja: /* Blurb */ dead link

'''''For the place see [[Death's Domain]]'''''
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==Blurb==
The house that [[Death]] built...and the garden too.


It's no more than a breath away...

Everyone needs a place to relax after a long day, after all. So here is the place where the Grim Reaper can kick back and take the load off his scythe. Here's the golf course that's not so much crazy as insane, and the useless maze, and the dark gardens - all brought (incongruously) to life. And here, for the first time ever, you will find out the reason why Death can't understand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.

As Death rides [[Binky]] into the sunset (of other people's lives), you can at last see what he gets up to when he's not at work.

==About the mapp==
The authors have gone through the books mentioning Death's home (''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]''), collected all information and tried the impossible, namely to map an impossible place. The map does not show the interior of Death's house, because the size of the rooms is more or less optional to the inhabitants. Instead the grounds are shown including such places as the famous maze, the golf course (with space time anomalies) and the lawn of pitiless infinity and tennis. The color of the map is mainly purple with shades of black and ivory.

Like all the other maps ''[[Death's Domain]]'' is great at bringing back the memories one had while reading the original books. Unlike the other maps, however, it is not intended to be an orientation for a certain area on the Disc. Whereas it can be great to have ''[[The Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]'' lying besides you while reading any books of the [[:Category:Watch Series|Watch Series]], Death's Domain is more a collection of Discworld facts combined with some great artwork by Paul Kidby.

==The Key==
# The Hill(s) of Night
# The Gazebo (Death thought it sounded interesting and was quite disappointed to find that it wasn't [[Wikipedia:Gazelle|some kind of antelope]])
# The Winter Garden
# The Stream of Unconsciousness
# Bee Hives
# Orchard
# [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan's]] Swing
# The Chicken Arks of Regular Eggs (Real Chickens, and [[Albert]] insisted that shouldn't be allowed to go skeletal, because they would look very strange when they lay)
# Well of Souls
# The Wood of Silence (good for Primroses)
# The bridge of just being useful to cross the stream (of Unconsciousness)
# The Maze of Unforgetfulness
# The Lawn of Pitiless Infinity and Tennis
# The Formal Pond Garden of Dreadful Night
# Rose Garden
# Technically the [[Wikipedia:Parterre|Parterre Garden]], bus generally known as 'the Knobbly Bush Garden'
# Stables (home of [[Binky]] and [[Ysabell|Ysabell's pony]])
# Flower Garden
# The Vegetable Garden of all Climates and Seasons
# Potting Shed
# The [[Wikipedia:Pineapple pit|Pineapple Pit]]
# Albert's Compost Heaps
# [[Wikipedia:Topiary|Topiary]] Garden
# Albert's Workshop
# The Wheel of Albert's Laundry
# The Unimpressive and Rather Small Ravine
# [[Wikipedia:Grindstone|Grindstone]]
# Non-temporal multi-spacial Crazy Golf
# The Lawn of Eternal Wandering and [[Wikipedia:Croquet|Crocuet]]
# [[Wikipedia:Sundial|Sundial]] of Uselessness
# The Pointy Tree Avenue
# The Boating Lake
# Boat House
# The very dull and authentic [[Wikipedia:Rockery|rockery]]
# Ornamental Fish Pond
# Lily Beds

==Characters==
* [[Death]]
* [[Albert]]
* [[Death of Rats]]

==Other stuff==
* Fourth map in the series of Discworld mapps
* Originally published in Great Britain by Corgi. Copyright (c) 1999 by Terry Pratchett / [[Paul Kidby]]. 
* Black and white illustrations and map artwork by Paul Kidby

[[Category:Maps|Death's Domain]]
[[de:Buch:Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp]]

Quirmian Phrases

2024-08-22T11:50:01Z

Myk Streja: Added notation to Mon Repos

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Quirmian]] is used by particular individuals to make excruciating puns.

* ''Chemin-de-fer'' - "The Iron Road" - The Railway. (According to [[Effie King]], it's also a card game.)
* ''Derriere Velocite'' - "Bum's Rush" - Forcible ejection from an establishment ({{MAA}})
* ''Le Mot Juste'' - "The Right Word (In The Right Place" - [[de Worde|de Worde]] family Motto
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the [[roundworld]] phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Fait Accompli'' - "An Accomplished Fact" ({{RS}})
* ''Guy de Norde'' - a celebrated architect who gave his name to the main railway station in Quirm city.
* ''Mon Repos'' - "my place of rest" - ({{T!}}) - (see also [[Death's Domain]]).
* ''Noblesse Oblige'' - "Nobility Obliges".
* ''Droit De Seigneur'' - "[[Wikipedia:Droit du seigneur|the right of the lord]]"
* ''Touché'' - "touched" (fencing)
* ''Lèse Majesté'' - "[[Wikipedia:Lèse-majesté|offense to majesty]]"
* ''Au Revoir'' - lit. "to the seeing again"; a Quirmian [[Wikipedia:Parting phrase|parting phrase]]
* ''Dans Une Certaine Condition'' - "In A Certain Condition" -- in reference to lycanthropy ({{MAA}})
* ''Nom d'une bouilloire! Pourquoi est-ce que je suis hardiment ri sous cape à par les dieux?'' - "Name of a kettle! Why am I boldly chuckled at by the gods?" (roughly translated) -- less a phrase and more a lamentation by the chef Aimsbury about his allergy to the word "garlic" ({{MM}})
* ''Grand Prix des Idiots Blithering'' - the "Grand Prize of the Blithering Idiots," an award given to the most accomplished Fool at the [[Fools' Guild]] in Ankh-Morpork each year, represented by honorary cap and bells. ({{WS}})
* ''Pas Devant Les Soldat Jeune'' - lit. "Not in front of the young soldiers"; recalls a common adult admonition, "Not in front of the children." ({{MR}})

==See also==
* [[Latatian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Book:Thud!

2024-08-21T20:53:16Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Thud!
|cover=[[File:Thud!.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=1 October 2005
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385608671
|pages=362
|rrp=£17.99
|series=Watch Series
|characters=[[Samuel Vimes|Commander Vimes]], [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes]], [[Detritus]], [[Sally von Humpeding]], [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], [[Cheery Littlebottom]], [[Angua von Überwald]], [[Mr Shine]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=
}}
==Blurb==
THUD! [[Battle of Koom Valley|Koom Valley]]? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of [[Ankh-Morpork]] City Watch is going to see the battle fought again, right outside his office (and perhaps inside his own Watch House). With his beloved [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

==Plot==
Relationships between the dwarf and troll communities of Ankh-Morpork have always been strained on the anniversary of the [[Battle of Koom Valley]], the first great battle between the two races. This year the tension has been made worse due to a dwarf demagogue, Grag [[Hamcrusher]]. On the morning when the book begins, Captain Carrot brings news that the Grag has been murdered, apparently by a troll, yet the dwarfs are trying to keep the death secret from the watch.

Vimes visits the extensive dwarf mines beneath the city. There he meets a nervous dwarf called Helmclever; and Ardent, the interpreter for the Grags who dispense religious advice from the mine. Ardent explains that Hamcrusher is indeed dead and the Grags are planning to appoint a "smelter", a dwarf detective to discover the truth. Vimes convinces them to choose Captain Carrot, a human who was adopted by dwarfs. Meanwhile, [[Nobby Nobbs]] and [[Fred Colon]] begin investigating the theft of [[Methodia Rascal|Methodia Rascal's]] giant painting of the Battle of Koom Valley.

While Vimes and Detritus visit [[Chrysoprase]], Carrot brings [[Angua]] and a new vampire recruit [[Sally von Humpeding|Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding]] to investigate the crime scene and is met with a confusing group of clues. Hamcrusher must have been dead before he was hit with the troll club, but there is evidence that a troll must have been present. Meanwhile, dwarfs are gathering in [[Sator Square]] while trolls are gathering in [[Plaza of Broken Moons]]. The Watch and the [[Specials]] (including a conscripted inspector) gather between the gangs to stop a fight, though the job proves surprisingly easy as most of them become blind drunk.

Meanwhile, Angua and Sally discover four recently killed dwarfs in a disused mine tunnel. One of them scrawled a minesign symbol in blood on the back of a locked door. When Angua and Sally return to the Watch House after crawling through the underworld of the city, a mysterious troll called [[Mr. Shine]] brings [[Brick]], a troll from the gutters of the city, to the care of Detritus. Shine reveals that the symbol means The [[Summoning Dark]], the darkest and most dangerous of minesign symbols. It turns out that Brick fell into the mine by accident under the influence of drugs, and saw Hamcrusher's body being hit with a club by another dwarf. Vimes visits a hidden Thud club, where Mr. Shine reveals himself to be a [[Diamond King|diamond troll]] and the secret King of the Trolls. Carrot organizes city dwarfs to dig out the four dead bodies beneath the mine. It turns out that the Grags and their soldiers had already abandoned the mine. In a parting shot, the Grags send a suicide squad to attack Vimes's family at their own house.

A dwarf called Helmclever is brought back the Watch House, and over a game of [[Thud]] tells Vimes that the four miners were killed because they found a talking [[Cube]], a magical device which can record and replay sound. The cube spoke with the voice of [[B'hrian Bloodaxe]], the King who commanded the dwarfs at Koom Valley. When Hamcrusher heard the cube, it enraged him so much he tried to destroy the words (which the dwarfs consider a heinous crime). Fighting broke out and another Grag killed Hamcrusher with a mining hammer. Ardent tried to conceal the crime to prevent the Watch discovering the cube. The dwarfs were now planning to use Rascal's painting to search the valley to find where there are "more lies". Helmclever dies suddenly when the candles are momentarily extinguished. A young Grag [[Bashfull Bashfullsson]] explains that the Summoning Dark killed him; he was cursed by the Summoning Dark because he heard one of the four miners dying behind the door and did nothing in response. Unknown to Vimes, he harbours the Summoning Dark, having touched the same door during his visit to the mine.

Vimes deduces that Methodia Rascal (an insane artist who lived in fear of "the chicken") found the cube in Koom Valley, learned how to make it talk, but threw it away because he could not stop it playing the sounds of battle. Vines asks [[Mustrum Ridcully]] to help him travel as fast as possible to Koom Valley, bringing Sybil, his son, [[Willikins]], Bashfullsson, Fred Colon, Nobby Nobbs, [[Cheery Littlebottom|Cheery]], Angua, Sally and Detritus. Detritus insists on bringing Brick.

At the valley, with help from copies of Rascal's painting which Sybil made when she was young, Vimes searches the valley for the locatation where the cube was originally found. He eventually finds the stolen paining in the right spot, but then he falls into a sinkhole and disappears. However, the Summoning Dark purposefully brings him to a cave full of dwarfs. In a dreamy fit of rage, Vimes attacks the dwarfs, killing or scaring most of them off. The Summoning Dark directs him to kill the helpless old Grags, but his own internal watchman stops him from losing control and drives out the demonic entity from his mind. When Vimes regains consciousness, he meets the [[Low King]], and they agree to activate the cube after Vimes figures out the special word to start it ("Awk!").

The cube reveals that the ancient dwarfs and trolls came to Koom Valley to make peace, but fighting broke out after they were caught in a mist and a storm. Some of the dwarfs and trolls were washed into a cave, together with the cube. They both recorded speeches on the cube and left one dwarf to try and bring it to the surface, while Bloodaxe and the Diamond King died playing Thud. At the end of the book, the cave is opened to the public with the hope that the two races can end their centuries of feuding. Back in Ankh-Morpork, Carrot tells Vetinari that the watch will expand with 60 new officers, and they have discovered an [[Axle]] in the mine under the city.

==Subplots==
* A recurring element is that every day at six o'clock, Vimes must return home and read [[Book:Where's My Cow?|Where's My Cow?]] to his son, even if it means charging through the city or shouting while fighting dwarfs.
* The [[Black Ribbon|Black Ribboners]] and Vetinari force Vimes to accept a vampire in the Watch. There is tension between Sally and Angua, especially when they both go down into the mine with Carrot, Angua's boyfriend. Later, Vimes discovers that Sally is a spy for the Low King, but he does not accept her resignation and allows her to stay in the Watch.
* Nobby Nobbs has a new girlfriend called [[Tawneee]], a pole dancer so attractive that it turns out that no men in their right mind would dare ask her out. After she helps Angua and Sally as they find their way out of the tunnel, they invite her and Cheery for a night out [[quaffing|minge drinking]]. At the end of the story, Nobby decides to let her down because she would be no good in the kitchen.
* Vetinari sends an inspector [[A.E. Pessimal]] to check whether the Watch is spending money wisely. Pessimal annoys Vimes so much that he conscripts the white-collar worker into the Specials, where they stand for hours in the pouring rain, sandwiched between two gangs. When Vimes decides the game is up, he refuses to leave and shows unexpected bravery when he attacks a troll (Brick) with his fists and teeth. Vimes later accepts Pessimal into the Watch, giving him administration duties, and promising he will become a sergeant in a year.
* Vimes has acquired another [[Dis-Organiser]] (a mark V), although this time, he is able to find some use for it.

==Opening Lines==
"The first thing Tak did, he wrote himself.
The second thing Tak did, he wrote the Laws.
The third thing Tak did, he wrote the World.
The fourth thing Tak did, he wrote a cave.
The fifth thing Tak did, he wrote a geode, an egg of stone.
And in the twilight of the mouth of the cave the geode hatched
and the brothers were born..."
excerpt from {{T!}}

==Major Characters==
*[[Grag]] [[Ardent]]
*Grag [[Bashfull Bashfullsson]]
*[[Detritus]]
*[[Brick]]
*[[Sally von Humpeding]]
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]
*The [[Low King]] of the Dwarves
*[[Mr. Shine]]
*[[Angua von Überwald]]
*[[Samuel Vimes]]
*[[Sybil Ramkin]] Vimes

==Minor Characters==
*Entities
**[[Summoning Dark]]
*Grag [[Helmclever]]
*[[Hamcrusher]]
*Kings, historic
**[[B'hrian Bloodaxe]], ancient low king of dwarfs
**[[Diamond King]], ancient king of trolls
*[[A.E. Pessimal]]
*[[Daniellarina Pouter]]
*[[Methodia Rascal]]
*Sir [[Reynold Stitched]]
*[[Tawneee]]
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]
*[[Bunty Waynesbury]] and husband
*[[Willikins]]

==Cameos and Mentions==
* Constable [[Brakenshield]]
* Constable [[Bluejohn]]
* [[Boggis]]
* [[Otto Chriek]]
* [[Coffin Henry]]
* [[Death]]
* Miss [[Deviante]]
* [[Dribble]], dragon
* [[Drumknott]]
* [[The Duck Man]]
* Constable [[Fittly]]
* [[Fizz]]
* [[Gimlet Gimlet]]
* Constable [[Haddock]]
* Special Constable [[Andy Hancock]]
* [[Hardcore]], troll
* Lance-Constable [[Hitherto|Hector Hitherto]]
* Lance-Constable [[Hitherto|Horace Hitherto]]
* [[Grabber Hoskins]] (mentioned)
* [[Igor#Igor_at_Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch.2C_Ankh-Morpork|Igor]]
* Constable [[Ironbender]]
* [[Gunder Ironcrust]]
* [[Setha Ironcrust]]
* [[Johnny]], coachman
* [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson|Bergholt "Bloody Stupid" Stuttley Johnson]]
* Constable [[Precious Jolson]]
* [[John Keel]] (mentioned)
* [[Librarian]]
* Constable [[Mica]]
* Special Constable [[Piggle]]
* [[Mr. Pony]], [[Artificers' Guild]]
* [[Purity]], nursemaid
* [[Verity Pushpram]]
* [[Mustrum Ridcully]]
* Corporal [[Ringfounder]]
* Mrs. [[Robinson]]
* [[Ruby]], wife of Detritus
* Constable [[Schist]]
* [[Arnold Sideways]]
* Dame [[Slightly]] (mentioned)
* [[John Smith]]
* Mrs. [[Spudding]]
* [[Pors Stronginthearm]]
* [[Grabpot Thundergust]]
* [[Mavis Trouncer]]
* [[Eric Wheelbrace]]
* [[Doreen Winkings]]

==Locations==
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**The [[Cham]]
**[[Dolly Sisters]] (mentioned)
**[[Empirical Crescent]]
**[[Oblong Office]]
**The [[Pink PussyCat Club]]
**[[Plaza of Broken Moons]]
**[[Pseudopolis Yard]]
**The [[Pork Futures Warehouse]]
**[[Pointer & Pickles]]
**The [[Royal Art Museum]]
**[[Sator Square]]
**[[Tallow Lane]] (mentioned)
**[[Treacle Street]]
**[[Turn Again Lane]] (mentioned)
**[[Two Pint Dock]]
*[[Crundells]] (mentioned)
*[[Mine sign|Dwarf Mines]]
*[[Koom Valley]]
*[[Ham-on-Koom]]

==Concepts and Ideas==
*[[Thud]] the boardgame
*[[Technomantic Devices]]
*[[Cubes]]
*[[Axle|Axles]]
*[[Short Story:Thud-A Historical Perspective|''Thud-A Historical Perspective'']] a short treatise expanding on the ideas and history of Thud!

==Ankh-Morpork City Watch Warrant Card==
As a part of a promo by bookseller Waterstones in the UK first editions of Thud! were bundled with an envelope labelled as from the [[Patrician]], containing a Postcard depicting Koom Valley, a Waterstones promo slip, and an [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] Warrant Card which contained some rules and ordinances of the Watch and [[Ankh-Morpork|the city]]. These items were produced in conjunction with [[Bernard Pearson]] and around 10,000 were produced.

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:Cover Thud.jpg|thumb|120px|Harper/US cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! Slip.jpg|thumb|130px|Collectors Slipcase Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:AMCWWC.jpg|thumb|180px|Promotional Pack]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! 2014.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback 2014]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! CL.jpg|thumb|130px|Collectors Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:T! 2023.jpg|thumb|120px|Paperback 2023]]
|}

==External Links==
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article569607.ece Times Review]
* {{wp|Thud!|The Wikipedia entry on "Thud!"}}
* [https://tametheboardgame.com/category/published-games/discworld-terry-pratchett/thud/ "Tame the Board Game" description]

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{{series|series=Watch|before=Night Watch|after=Snuff}}

[[Category:Discworld Series|Thud!]]
[[Category:Watch Series|Thud!]]
[[de:Buch:Klonk!]]

Latatian Phrases

2024-08-21T20:51:10Z

Myk Streja: /* Other Latatian phrases */ Added new phrase

Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] ({{J}}) and [[Carcer]] ({{NW}}).
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Alea Jacta Est'' - "The Die Is Cast": Can't stop now. (Die is the singular form of dice; cast means to throw) ({{HFOS}})
* ''Alma Pater'' - lit. "Fostering Father" - Unseen University's version of [[wikipedia:Alma mater|''alma mater'']]. ({{GP}})
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) - "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potet'' - "''One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do''" - An ancient and famous volume mentioned in {{HFOS}}.
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ({{WFM}})
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" - See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Book:Going Postal

2024-08-20T15:28:44Z

Myk Streja: Updated to ISBN13

{{Book Data
|title=Going Postal
|cover=[[File:Going Postal First.jpg|thumb|250px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator= Paul Kidby
|date=25 Sep 2004
|pages=329
|rrp=
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385603423
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books
|characters=[[Moist von Lipwig]], [[Adora Belle Dearheart]], [[Reacher Gilt]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=Adapted as a TV film in 2010
}}
==Blurb==
[[Moist von Lipwig]] is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s ailing [[Ankh-Morpork Post Office|postal service]] back on its feet.

It's a tough decision.

But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, [[Ankh-Morpork_Order_of_Postal_Workers_Benevolent_and_Friendly_Society|the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society]], the evil chairman of the [[Grand Trunk Semaphore Company]], and a midnight killer. And don't forget the legendary [[Mrs. Cake]]!

Getting a date with [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] would be nice, too.

Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...

==Plot==
[[Moist von Lipwig]] is a travelling fraudster who is finally arrested in Ankh-Morpork under the name of Albert Spangler. However, the hangman fakes his execution and Moist wakes up in the Patrician's office. [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]], who had arranged for Lipwig to only be hanged "to within half an inch" of his life, offers Moist a job as the new Postmaster General, or he can walk out the door and "never hear from me again". Since walking out the door will result in death via a semi-disguised pit of spikes, Moist accepts the job. Once outside he immediately flees the city, but is apprehended in [[Hapley]] by his new parole officer, a golem called [[Mr. Pump]].

Moist begins work at the Post Office, once a thriving business that collapsed, leaving the building as a decaying shell full of piles of undelivered letters. Only two staff remain: [[Tolliver Groat]], an aged "Junior" Post Officer, and his assistant [[Stanley Howler]]. It turns out that in recent months, Vetinari has tried to revive the business, but four Postmasters have already died in mysterious accidents. Stanley and Groat are initially distrustful of Moist and appear to be afraid of a mysterious presence that is haunting the building.

Vetinari meets with the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, led by [[Reacher Gilt]], who have taken full control of the [[Clacks]]. The Patrician has noticed that the quality of the communications has deteriorated ever since they bought the Clacks network, but he fails to persuade Gilt to change his ways. Meanwhile, Moist discovers that two of his predecessors died because they hallucinated in the past and fell through non-existent floor, while another died of fright. Moist falls into a huge pile of letters and nearly suffocates to death, but he is rescued by Mr Pump. Moist realises that the building is haunted because of the large number of undelivered letters. He hears voices in his head from the letters, demanding that they be delivered.

Moist begins by rehiring some of the old postmen, who initiate him by forcing him to do a treacherous blindfolded ''Postman's Walk''. To prove himself worthy of leadership, they additionally set several Lipwigzer dogs on him, but Moist knows how to control them, as he hails from the town of Lipwig where the dogs also originate and his grandfather breeds such dogs. Groat then shows Moist the mail-sorting machine; a time/space-warping, (and now wrecked) creation of the infamous [[Bloody Stupid Johnson]], which was partly responsible for the collapse of the old Post Office, and later for the death of a Postmaster.

While hiring new postmen, Moist falls in love-at-first-sight with [[Adora Belle Dearheart]], the chain-smoking golem-rights activist. Her father, [[Robert Dearheart]], invented the Clacks system, but it was stolen from him by Gilt using financial trickery. Her brother, [[John Dearheart]], organised a rival New Trunk, but he died mysteriously (in the prologue of the book). Moist also invents [[Stamps|paper stamps]] for use by the Post Office, hires [[golems]] as postmen, gets the business working by delivering some of the undelivered mail and brings the Post Office into competition with the Clacks. His interview in the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] coincides neatly with yet another breakdown of the Clacks, giving the Post Office public attention as he personally delivers mail to [[Sto Lat]].

Gilt sends his private assassin, a banshee named Mr [[Gryle]], to murder the Postmaster and burn down the building. As Moist has gone out on a date and left Groat in charge, the banshee mistakenly attacks Groat, only to be repelled by Stanley. The banshee only succeeds in setting the Post Office on fire. Moist senses trouble through the letters that are haunting his consciousness. He returns to the burning building, enters the building to rescue Mr. Tiddles the Post Offices cat, and confronts Mr Gryle by the sorting machine; Gryle accidentally succeeds in getting himself liquidated by it. During his rescue, [[Anghammarad]], a 18,000-year-old messenger golem is killed by the simultaneous combination of the fire and a sudden downpour of water.

Following this, Moist challenges the Grand Trunk to see who can get a message to [[Genua]] (a two weeks' journey away), faster, and the Clacks are only too happy to accept it. He meets [[The Smoking Gnu]], three friends of the late John Dearheart, who undermine the Grand Trunk by sending codes which can damage the Clacks machinery. They offer to help by sending a [[Wikipedia:killer poke|killer poke]] signal from an old wizard's tower after nightfall to damage the machinery.

[[Mustrum Ridcully|Archchancellor Ridcully]] gives both groups a book to send to Genua, and Moist offers to allow the Clacks to send part of the book while the mail coach delivers the rest. Moist travels with the mail coach for a short distance to the Wizards tower, where he meets the Smoking Gnu. At the last minute, Moist persuades them to send a different signal. The message, which announces that it was sent by dead clacksmen, exposes all of the company's crimes to the Patrician and Ankh-Morpork. The plan succeeds, and Vetinari orders an investigation. Moist is given possession of the Clacks but he gives it back to the Dearhearts and resumes his role of Postmaster.

In the epilogue, Gilt is brought before the Patrician some weeks later. Vetinari offers Gilt a similar offer to what he offered Moist, this time to reform the [[Ankh-Morpork Mint]] and banking system. Gilt declines the offer and walks out the door, where he presumably falls to his death.

==Characters==
*[[George Aggy]]
*[[Adora Belle Dearheart]]
*[[Albert Spangler]] (briefly)
*[[Anghammarad]]
* Daniel "One Drop" [[Trooper]]
*[[Gladys]]
*[[Grandad]]
*Mr [[Gryle]]
*[[Iodine Maccalariat]]
*[[Ladislav Pelc]]
*[[Moist von Lipwig]]
*[[Pump|Mr. Pump]]
*[[Reacher Gilt]]
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]
*[[Stanley Howler]]
*[[Tolliver Groat]]
*[[Vetinari]]

==Locations==
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**[[Patrician's Palace]]
**[[Post Office]]
**[[Lady Sybil Free Hospital]]
**[[Filigree Street]]
***[[The Mended Drum]]
**[[Unseen University]]
***[[Library]]
***[[Wizards' Pantry]]
**The [[Tanty]]
**[[Golem Trust]]
**[[Teemer and Spools]]
*[[Sto Lat]]
*[[Hapley]]
*[[Genua]]
*Clacks Towers
**[[Tump Tower]]
**[[Tower 181]]
**[[Tower 93]] (mentioned)

== Concepts and Ideas ==
* [[Clacks]]
* [[Stamps]]
* [[Thud]] the boardgame (its first appearance)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
|cover=[[File:PostalDVD.jpg|thumb|200px]]
|asin=B003IPC3JU
|imdb=1219817
|date=30-31 May 2010
|channel=Sky One
|director=Jon Jones
|producer=Sue De Beauvoir
|cast=Richard Coyle, David Suchet, Claire Foy, Charles Dance
|duration=182 minutes
|episodes=2
|series=Ankh-Morpork Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic]]
|next=
}}
===[[TV and Film:Going Postal|Television]]===
'''''Terry Pratchett's Going Postal''''' was the novel's adaptation into a TV film. It was first broadcast on Sky One and Sky 1 HD, in two parts over the 30th and 31st of May 2010. [[Terry Pratchett]] made a cameo as a postman.

Cast:
*[[Moist von Lipwig]] - Richard Coyle (''Coupling'')
*[[Reacher Gilt]] - David Suchet (''Agatha Christie's Poirot'')
*Patrician [[Havelock Vetinari]] - Charles Dance (''Game of Thrones, The Jewel in the Crown & The Golden Child'')
*[[Adora Belle Dearheart]] - Claire Foy (''Little Dorrit'')
*[[Mr. Pump]] (body) Marnix Van Den Broeke - (''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'')
*Mr. Pump (voice) - Kerry Shale (''RKO 281, Dennis the Menace'')
*[[Drumknott]] - Steve Pemberton (''The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville'')
*[[Tolliver Groat]] - Andrew Sachs (''Fawlty Towers'')
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]] - Tamsin Greig (''Black Books, Green Wing'')
*[[Angua]] - Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
*[[Gryle|Mr. Gryle]] - Adrian Schiller (''Being Human, A Touch of Frost'')
*[[Stanley Howler]] - Ian Bonar (''Hotel Babylon'')
*[[Crispin Horsefry]] - Madhav Sharma
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]] - Timothy West (''Edward the Seventh, Brass'')
*[[Mr. Pony]] - John Henshaw (''Early Doors, Born and Bred'')

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
Adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]] into a stage play in 2005.

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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Series|Going Postal]]
[[de:Buch:Ab die Post]]

Pictsies

2024-08-20T11:30:47Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Added spog

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
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|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
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'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - human beings.
* Big Man - chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - to be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin' for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - a weak person.
* Carlin - an old woman, witch or not.
* Cludgie - the privy
* Coo - Cow
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Eldritch - weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason
* Geas - An oath of sorts, an obligation. Not a bird.
* Hag - Witch
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - secrets
* Ken - Know.
* Midden - combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired....or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Ships - Wooly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Not to be confused with sailing or boats.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* Spog - A leather bag most Feegles have hanging from their belt, used in lieu of pockets.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.
* Special Sheep Liniment - Probably moonshine whiskey

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin

2024-08-20T00:57:40Z

Myk Streja: Jumped the gun

'''Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin''' came from the [[Long Lake Clan]] along with [[Jeannie]] as one of her bodyguards and to become the [[Chalk Hill Clan]]'s new [[gonnagle]]. Although he is young, he is a talented gonnagle, and he knows all the the songs and can play the [[mousepipes]] so sadly that outside it would start to rain.

Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin is the smallest pictsie in the clan (about 3" tall), small enough to be mistaken for a wean (a juvenile). Awf'ly Wee Billy would announce himself by his full name whenever he spoke up, because he was afraid his small stature would make him easy to forget and he might disappear. When you’re half the size of most grown pictsies, you’re ''really'' short; much shorter and you’d be a hole in the ground.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]]

Gonnagle

2024-08-19T23:25:44Z

Myk Streja: Link Wee Billy

One of the most distinguished positions in a [[Pictsies|Pictsie]] clan. A Gonnagle is similar to a bard, telling stories as well as reciting poetry and song. However, a highly trained Gonnagle can cause enemies extreme pain through playing music. An instrument called the mousepipes are played. In appearance, they are similar to normal highland bagpipes, but scaled down to [[Pictsies|Feegle]] size. However, when played, it creates an unpleasant bubbling sound, which can vary in intensity. Gonnagles can also recite painfully horrible poetry.

They sometimes choose to travel between clans to help spread the history of the Pictsies and are often chosen as bodyguards when a female leaves to become [[Kelda]].

Gonnagles met so far include:
*[[William the Gonnagle]] - Chalk Hill
*[[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - Chalk Hill
*[[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - Long Lake

The name "gonnagle" comes from the Roundworld Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall, known for his exceptionally bad poetry.

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]

Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin

2024-08-19T23:15:11Z

Myk Streja: New character page

'''Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin''' came from the [[Long Lake Clan]] and is likely one of [[Jeannie]]'s brothers that came over to the [[Chalk Hill Clan]] with her as a bodyguard when she became their kelda. Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin is the smallest pictsie in the clan (about 3" tall), small enough to be mistaken for a wean (a juvenile). Awf'ly Wee Billy would announce himself by his full name whenever he spoke up, because he was afraid his small stature would make him easy to forget and he might disappear. When you’re half the size of most grown pictsies, you’re ''really'' short; much shorter and you’d be a hole in the ground.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]]

Pictsies

2024-08-19T22:54:29Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Added wean

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
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'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - human beings.
* Big Man - chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - to be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.' (You would be gaggin for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - a weak person.
* Carlin - an old woman, witch or not.
* Cludgie - the privy
* Coo - Cow
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Eldritch - weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason
* Geas - An oath of sorts, an obligation. Not a bird.
* Hag - Witch
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - secrets
* Ken - Know.
* Midden - combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired....or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Ships - Wooly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Not to be confused with sailing or boats.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Wean - a juvenile pictsie no more than 3" tall.
* Special Sheep Liniment - Probably moonshine whiskey

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Pictsies

2024-08-19T22:31:55Z

Myk Streja: /* Dialect and language */ Added tattiebogle

{{Character Data
|title=Pictsie
|photo=pictsiemine.jpg|By [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
|age=
|race=Pictsie
|occupation= stealing, fighting, drinking
|appearance=small but very strong
|residence=[[Ramtops]], hubward [[Sto Plains]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}, {{WFM}}, {{FOC}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{SN}}
|cameos= {{MR}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']]
}}

'''Pictsies''' or '''Nac Mac Feegle''' are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble [[gnomes]], but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

== History ==
The Nac Mac Feegle once lived in [[Fairyland]] in service of the [[Queen of the Elves|Fairy Queen]]. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen's pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the adventure and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic about fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not have the same sense of what was right, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the [[King of the Elves]], the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke away from the rule of the Queen, and took up residence on the Discworld as free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"

== Habitat ==
Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers".) Pictsie clans live in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We have encountered only a few clans so far:

*The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the clan for which [[Tiffany Aching]] was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the most well known pictsies, such as [[Rob Anybody]], [[Daft Wullie]] and [[Big Yan]].
*The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is [[Big Aggie]], and her daughter, [[Jeannie]], came to marry [[Rob Anybody]].
*Although it is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the [[Ramtops]], from which [[William the Gonnagle]] comes.

No pictsie clans have been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species do know about the existence of pictsies: the [[Lancre]] witches [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Eumenidies Treason|Miss Treason]], for example. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal [[Buggy Swires]], the gnome [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork Watchman]] paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in ''[[Book:Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'').

== Personality and habits ==
All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your name is written down you can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. However, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved by fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also have unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially because of this that they are given so much respect. Each clan also has a [[gonnagle]], a sort of battle poet who may also play the [[mousepipes]], which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies pain.

== Dialect and language ==
Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:
* Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Aching
* Bigjobs - human beings.
* Big Man - chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
* Blathers/blethers - rubbish, nonsense.
* Boggin - to be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a cup of tea.(You would be gaggin for a cup of tea.)
* Bunty - a weak person.
* Carlin - an old woman, witch or not.
* Cludgie - the privy
* Coo - Cow
* Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in place of swear words.
* Dinnae/didnae - do not/did not.
* Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
* Eldritch - weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason
* Geas - An oath of sorts, an obligation. Not a bird.
* Hag - Witch
* Hag o' Hags - A head witch or great witch (e.g. [[Granny Weatherwax]])
* Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
* Hiddlins - secrets
* Ken - Know.
* Midden - combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
* Mudlin - Useless person.
* Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run away.)
* Pished - Tired....or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (we all got pished - we all got really drunk).
* Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
* Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
* Ships - Wooly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Not to be confused with sailing or boats.
* Spavie - See Mudlin.
* Tattiebogle - Scarecrow, not to be mistaken for a bigjob.
* Waily - general cry of despair.
* Special Sheep Liniment - Probably moonshine whiskey

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to understand.

== List of known pictsies ==
This list does not include honorary members of clans, for example [[Horace the Cheese]], but only "true" Feegles.

=== Chalk Hill Clan ===
* [[Rob Anybody]] - big man of the clan.
* [[Big Yan]] - biggest Feegle.
* [[Daft Wullie]] - second in command.
* [[Fion]] - The old [[Kelda]]'s daughter
* [[Hamish]] the Aviator - scout and messenger.
* [[No-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock]] - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
* [[Maeve]] - the old [[Kelda]] of the Chalk Hills clan. Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died after 70 years in charge.
* [[William the Gonnagle]] - old Gonnagle; originally from the old Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
* [[Wee Dangerous Spike]] - a younger, inexperienced Feegle, likely one of Rob’s first sons.
* Wee Bobby
* Medium Size Jock
* Wee Jock
* Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
* Slightly Mad Angus
* Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock
* Wee Honeymouth Jock

=== Long Lake Clan ===
* [[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]] - very small gonnagle.
* [[Big Aggie]] - Kelda.
* [[Jeannie]] - New Kelda of Chalk Hill, married to Rob Anybody.

=== Clan unknown ===
* [[Wee Mad Arthur]] - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised by peaceful [[Gnomes|gnomish]] shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, however. He is currently a member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

==Annotation==
A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film ''[[wikipedia:Willow (film)|Willow]]''; that is to say frequently drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Being little people with antedilivian habits and their own language, they may have been inspired by the Lilliputians in ''[[wikipedia:Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', which was read by Terry when younger.

==Trivia==
* Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of [[Suicide]], though not for the usual Roundworld reasons: they have good reason to hate actual fairies.

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Latatian Phrases

2024-08-19T14:11:22Z

Myk Streja: /* Other Latatian phrases */ Added new phrase; cleaned out trailing spaces

Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] ({{J}}) and [[Carcer]] ({{NW}}).
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Alea Jacta Est'' - "The Die Is Cast": Can't stop now. (Die is the singular form of dice; cast means to throw)
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) - "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potet'' - "''One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do''" - An ancient and famous volume mentioned in {{HFOS}}.
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ({{WFM}})
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" - See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Latatian Phrases

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Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) -- "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ({{WFM}})
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potet'' - "''One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do''" -- An ancient and famous volume mentioned in {{HFOS}}.
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Book:A Hat Full of Sky

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|title=A Hat Full of Sky
|cover=[[File:Cover A Hat Full of Sky.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=29th April 2004
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=9780385607360
|pages=349
|rrp=
|series=Tiffany Series
|characters=[[Tiffany Aching]], the [[Nac Mac Feegle|Pictsies]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=
}}
==Blurb==
A real [[witches magic|witch]] can ride a broomstick, cast spells and make a proper shamble out of nothing.

Eleven-year-old [[Tiffany Aching]] can't.

A real witch never casually [[Borrowing|steps out of her body]], leaving it empty.

Tiffany does.

And there's [[Hiver|something]] just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die.

Now she's got to fight back and learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help of arch-witch [[Granny Weatherwax|Mistress Weatherwax]] and the truly amazing [[Level|Miss Level]]...

– ''"Crivens! And us!"''

Oh, yes. And the [[pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] – the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of [[Fairyland]] for being drunk at two in the afternoon. They'll fight anything.

And even they might not be enough...

==Main Characters==
*[[Pictsies|Feegles: The Chalk Hill Clan]]
**[[Rob Anybody]]
**[[Big Yan]]
**[[Daft Wullie]]
**[[Hamish]]
**[[Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin]]
**[[Jeannie]]
*[[Tiffany Aching]]
*[[Granny Weatherwax]]
*[[Level|Miss Level]]
*[[Annagramma Hawkin]]
*[[Petulia Gristle]]
*[[Letice Earwig]]
*[[Perspicacia Tick]]
*[[Hiver|The Hiver ]]

===Minor Characters===
*[[Sensibility Bustle]]
*[[Gertruder Tiring]]
*[[Lulu Darling]]
*[[Harrieta Bilk]]
*[[Lucy Warbeck]]
*[[Dimity Hubbub]]
*[[Zakzak Stronginthearm]]
*[[Brian ("A Hat Full of Sky")|Brian]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Oswald (ghost)|Oswald]] the ''ondageist''
*[[Weavall|Mr Weavall]]
*[[Roland]]
*[[Joe Aching]]
*[[Wentworth Aching]]

==Locations==
*[[The Chalk]]
**[[Twoshirts]]
*[[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre River]]
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]
*[[Loko]] (Mentioned)
*[[Unseen University]]
**[[Library]]

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Borrowing ]]
*[[The pig trick]]
*[[Witch Trials]]

==Gallery==
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==External Links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/a-hat-full-of-sky.html ''A Hat Full of Sky'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

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Latatian Phrases

2024-08-18T14:46:43Z

Myk Streja: /* Other Latatian phrases */ Placed original variant of phrase from MR

Most residents of Ankh-Morpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less - literally "dropped from a great height" but could also be construed as "shit on from above") ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes).
* ''Pinus Strobus'' - White Pine tree ({{SN}}).

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nullus Anxietas'' - "No Worries" - The motto of [[Bugarup University]] ({{TLC}}).
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
* ''Noli Timere Messorem'' [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto ({{SN}}).
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their <S>testicles in your grip</S> full attention, their hearts and minds will follow"-- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Morporkias Sum]]'', spoken by [[William de Worde]] in ({{MR}}) -- "I am an [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen." Also stated as ''Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!'' in ({{RS}}).
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the roundworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}}
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

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