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|title= Boddony
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|name= Boddony
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|race= Dwarf

|occupation= Co-Owns the printing press used by [[William de Worde]] in {{TT}}. 
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|marital status= Dwarf-to-be of the dwarf [[Gunilla Goodmountain]].

|books= {{TT}}
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Boddony is the dwarf-to-be of the dwarf [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] (sex isn't discussed amongst Dwarves: it's rather assumed that the two of them know which is which...).

The two of them are the owners of the Movable Type Printing Device which enters [[William de Worde]]'s life rather abruptly and is the catalyst for the events of {{TT}}.

In keeping with Pratchett's usual mastery of nudges towards human reality, both are well-named. The [[Roundworld]] ''Bodoni'' is a well-known typeface that was designed at the end of the eighteenth century by [[wikipedia:Giambattista_Bodoni|Giambattista Bodoni]], an Italian printer who became the Director of the Press for the Duke of Parma. 

Goodmountain is a direct translation of ''Gutenberg''. Johann Gutenberg was the (German) inventor of movable type in the 1450s, most famously responsible for the Gutenberg Bibles - the first printed books in the Western World.


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Another dwarf mentioned in {{TT}}, young [[Caslong]], is yet another sly nod to [[Roundworld]]. ''Caslon'' is a well-known typeface named after its creator William Caslon, who released it in the 1730s. It was a highly successful and popular typeface throughout Europe and America: the first printings of the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution were set in Caslon.

Another member of Goodmountain's team is called Gowdie, another font, Gaudi - the architect of the famous church in Barcelona.


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