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I should also point out that in Lancashire there's Pendle Hill and the corresponding Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 and 1633

Peter

I would also like to say that Lancre, even though seems to be named after Lancashire, reminds me more of the giant hills in the north of Scotland, it's about as flat!

Grim

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[edit] Origin & Pronunciation

I suspect the name to be (at least partially) based on Pierre de Lancre. That would also put the given pronunciation in question... 85.125.192.56 00:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] currency

The Lancre Crown, divided into the shilling, the penny, and the farthing.

Where does that come from? The "Currency" entry in The Discworld Companion, from whence the rest of that entry largely comes, just mentions the penny, and I don't recall crowns or shillings being mentioned in the books. Farthings may have been, I'm not sure. Dollars have been mentioned in a Lancastrian context, but I assumed they were A-M dollars, accepted as international currency, and therefore as "default" when money is needed in a largely non-financial economy. (The UU Diary says that 1 Lancre penny = .001 AM$, which makes sense.)

I've probably missed something, but that's Lancre currency as I understand it.

Daibhid C 21:31 21 Sept 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This needs a re-write

System of Government: Technically a constitutional monarchy. Verence II has set up a Parliament, but most Lancrastians view this as a way of getting them to do his work for him and aren't having any of it. However they do consider themselves a constitutional monarchy, as the populous spend their entire day working with large heavy and often sharp objects. To Quote Nanny Ogg "Some lessons is so obvious they don't need to be learnt."

I don't understand the bit starting "However they do consider themselves..." at all - I'd {{sofixit}} but I haven't the foggiest clue what it's supposed to mean (I presume "populous" should be "populace", but I still can't make head nor tail of it, and I've read all the books)... Has anyone any idea what it means? Tonywalton  | Talk 16:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

It basically means that they outnumber the king and have tools that are potentially weapons, so that gives them a say in how the country is run. It's a paraphrase of a line in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, although it's a lot clearer there. Daibhid C 14:32, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Bad Ass?

Is the "Bad Ass" redirect to this page correct? It smells fishy to me