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  • This one follows William de Worde, disgruntled scion of a wealthy family who finds his career as a newsletter writer for various international notables disrupted by the arrival in town of a group of Dwarfs and their printing press.

    Book Report: The Truth, by Terry Pratchett Ulysses 2009

  • This one follows William de Worde, disgruntled scion of a wealthy family who finds his career as a newsletter writer for various international notables disrupted by the arrival in town of a group of Dwarfs and their printing press.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Ulysses 2009

  • Much like his novels that star the ex-swindler Moist von Lipwig and the reporter William de Worde, Pratchett takes a idea from the real world and twists to fit in the Discworld universe, leaving it slightly similar but not quite the same.

    Book Review: Unseen Academicals | Fandomania 2009

  • There are, however, appearances by old favourites like Sam Vimes and Angua from the Watch, and William de Worde and Otto Chriek, from Ankh-Morpork newspaper The Truth.

    Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett 2007

  • "9 Sometimes when I am Stvck for a rhyme, I new-mint a Worde because I jvst want to get the Damned script ovt the fvcking doore."

    "9 Sometimes when I am Stvck for a rhyme, I new-mint a Worde because I jvst want to get the Damned script ovt the fvcking doore." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Wynkyn de Worde reduced the obscene and scatalogical elements a trifle, thus making it a thing of pure refinement.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • Althouse: "9 Sometimes when I am Stvck for a rhyme, I new-mint a Worde because I jvst want to get the Damned script ovt the fvcking doore."

    "9 Sometimes when I am Stvck for a rhyme, I new-mint a Worde because I jvst want to get the Damned script ovt the fvcking doore." Ann Althouse 2009

  • There are, however, appearances by old favourites like Sam Vimes and Angua from the Watch, and William de Worde and Otto Chriek, from Ankh-Morpork newspaper The Truth.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Wynkyn de Worde reduced the obscene and scatalogical elements a trifle, thus making it a thing of pure refinement.

    gillpolack: So many novels heroicise mankind. When a gillpolack 2009

  • So lifting up the Cudgell, he gave him therewith halfe a score good bastinadoes, laying them on soundly, both on his armes and shoulders: and Egano feeling the smart of them, durst not speake one Worde, but fled away from him so fast as hee could, Anichino still following, and multiplying many other injurious speeches against him, with the Epithites of Strumpet, lustfull and insatiate

    The Decameron 2004

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