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Are you sure the book reference should be to The Last Continent (XXXX/Australia-based), not to Interesting Times (Agatean Empire/China-and-Japan-based)?

== A sidenote on the word ==

Isn't AGATEophobia also the fear of going insane? Maybe it wasn't on purpose, but it still is rather fitting...--[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 21:31, 24 April 2011 (CEST)
:Very unusual word. It doesn't appear in the Shorter OED or dictionary.com and I can't find a root for it either. (You must have found it in deviantART.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 22:13, 24 April 2011 (CEST)
::Nope, In ''Neon Unnützes Wissen'' (Neon is a german magazin and the category has 20 quite useless facts in each issue. Lately they brought out books with 1347 useless facts...which I bought)--[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 23:34, 24 April 2011 (CEST)

It's kosher.

[http://www.anxietyatoz.com/phobias/agateophobia.htm], [http://phobialist.com/]--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 00:19, 26 April 2011 (CEST)
: Yea, I saw example (1) already. The odd thing is that it's not found in major dictionaries and the root is really obscure. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:58, 26 April 2011 (CEST)

According to the ''An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett'' by Andrew M. Butler: 'Agate is a form of silica, often used to make china; of course the Agatean Empire is a parody of CHina, and the royal family of China had the jade emperor as a deity..., jade also being a form of silica.' Is this annotation already found on the wiki? [[User:Stanley Howler|ASK ME ABOUT STAMPS]] 18:43, 7 May 2012 (CEST)

:People have mixed opinions on said book AFAIK. As I think some of the 'annotions' are just Mr Butler's wild guesses instead of 'word of god'--[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 23:07, 7 May 2012 (CEST)

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