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Posted Dec 7, 2012 10:24 UTC (Fri) by hthoma (subscriber, #4743)
In reply to: widdershins by boudewijn
Parent article: Quotes of the week

> the other words really seem to be neologisms.

They are from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

I am not a native english speaker, much less an etymologist. Just a Pratchett fan ;-)


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