27 I know this is an arbitrary metric, but if we count all books or stories officially published as part of an SFF universe, (even one with multiple authors and/or subseries), which would result in the largest combined word count?
What is the explanation for the 'crux' part of the word? While another word, the torture spell, Crucio, also has the same root, in that case it can be reasoned that crucifixion and torture have similar connotations and it's reflected in the language. However the use of 'crux' in the word 'Horcrux' is less clear to me.
A Rory award for the most gratuitous use of the word "fuck" in a serious screenplay He was forced by the publisher to change this, and chose the innocuous word Belgium instead.
Where did the meaning "To remove a clone from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb" (wiktionary) for the word decant originate? The wiktionary entry does not cite an usage and the OED entry it references only contains other (related) meanings.
The word does indeed come from the old Norse and was used throughout the Danelaw (the part of England under Viking rule in the late first millennium). Wapentake referred to local meetings, and by extension, the place of those meetings. Wapentakes became administrative subdivisions of counties in the north of England (as Hundreds were in the south).
The first appearance of the word "Sith" in science fiction I have found is from Warlords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913-1914), which appears in these pages.
The origin is from very bad pulp novels during the fifties and sixties when writers were trying to move away from the other awful terms used to describe Humans, such as Earthlings. Ugh. Terran was considered an improvement and became the defacto expression until it became more common to call people from Earth, what WE call them: Humans. Though some writers would go back to using such terms as ...
I have seen Dank Farrik being used only in the Mandalorian show and only in scenes where the word sayer either is in trouble or just surprised. This makes me wonder is it an exclamatory word akin t...
