Footnotes*

[The Mad Collector]

it is The Mapp so over to you Rath

 

[RathDarkblade]

Hmm... I think this might be too easy, but anyway... have fun guessing!

* Cockney rhyming slang, short for Richard the Third, which rather happily rhymes with another interesting word.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Has to be Dodger, that's probably the only time the real cockney slang is used

 

[RathDarkblade]

It is Dodger, but I thought Terry used Cockney slang in other books too??? E.g. in Going Postal, where Oliver Groat uses the arrhythmical Cockbill Street slang, and it contrasted with Cockney slang?

 

[=Tamar]

Nonrhyming slang actually is pretty close to the current version of Cockney rhyming slang, as the people I know who have used it tend to drop the rhyming word. For instance, "feet" used to be called "plates of meat", but now they just say "plates."

 

[The Mad Collector]

It is Dodger, but I thought Terry used Cockney slang in other books too???

Yes but in the Discworld books he changes this to Ronald the Third of Lancre so they are Ronalds rather than the Richards.

 

[The Mad Collector]

See Dr Bentley Purchase,The Vicar is Coming to Tea and One Hundred and Twenty-seven Other Warnings of Social Embarrassment (Unseen University Press).

 

[RathDarkblade]

Hmm. Snuff?

 

[The Mad Collector]

yes it is, over to you

 

[RathDarkblade]

Whoops! I must have missed your reply, Mad. Please pardon my forgetfulness.

From a distance it did, anyway. Close to, no.

 

[Mixa]

Wow! That is really tough! Any clues?

Mx

 

[RathDarkblade]

Ay... I was hoping you could guess and I would clue you in.

Clue: the book is early. I can't say how early or any more or I would spoil it.

 

[=Tamar]

Eric. It's about the Tezumen wall sculptures.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Yes!

Mixa, the Tezumen wall carvings on the temple look a little the Tezumen giving their prisoners a complete medical checkup!! (Hooray!)

(And then we get to the footnote...) :twisted:

Your turn, =Tamar.

 

[=Tamar]

It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Hmm... it surely is Maskerade, yes?

 

[=Tamar]

Correct! Your turn.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Sigh... I don't have my books at the moment. Someone else can have my turn.

 

[=Tamar]

"The leitmotif of the Guild of Barber-Surgeons."

 

[RathDarkblade]

Hmm... the leitmotif of the Guild of Barber-Surgeons is "shave and a haircut, no legs". But I can't think what book this is from... sorry.