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I thought this page might be helpful but it will take me a while to finish so is there any way to disable the link until its in a fit state for other people to contribute to.--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 08:00, 13 February 2007 (CET)

Ok never mind I just thought I was going to be kicked off the computer and didn't want to leve the page empty.--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 09:55, 13 February 2007 (CET)

Those terms aren't ''French'', of course. It's been pointed out that Discworld has no Scotland, nor Wales, nor New Orleans, however similar they may be to certain areas and peoples of Discworld due to multiversal conventions. (I suspect it's a dialect of ''Quirmian''.)--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:00, 18 February 2007 (CET)

But derived from French in the sense that Latatian is derived from Latin and this is a cross continuity article.--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 04:37, 22 February 2007 (CET)

Are Rampant, Guardant and Passant used in discworld or are the just general terms? I don't remember seeing any lions.--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 04:41, 22 February 2007 (CET)

Lions certainly exist on the Discworld, or did in the time of the prophet Brutha ({{SG}}) as a skinny but very hungry feature of the desert... maybe more noble versions exist down in Howondaland, and as on Roundworld, have been taken up for heraldry? Come to think of it, does the College of Heralds possess an extremely old and arthritic version of the beast in its menagerie? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 11:47, 16 August 2007 (CEST)

The hourglass on the Duke of Sto Helit's arms is ''rampant'', although it would look pretty silly otherwise; the Ramkin family dragon is described as ''guardant'' although it's not in S. Briggs's drawing, and I forget already where I found ''passant''.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 16:12, 22 February 2007 (CET)

Well spotted, I was just being cautious because Discworld heraldry is as close to the European variety as Latatian is to Latin.
I thought I read somewhere that those terms only apply to lions but I just looked it up and I was mistaken.--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 16:54, 22 February 2007 (CET)

== French=Quirmian ==

confirmation found on page 110(ish) of {{TT}}. --[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 17:45, 25 February 2007 (CET)
:Which is interesting, because e.g. Leonard of Quirm = Leonardo who ''really'' wasn't French --[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 13:13, 16 August 2007 (CEST)

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