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Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's latest. Awesome, as ever.
But there's one thing in the book I need to ask about. It's not spoilery and you don't have to have read the book (or any of Pratchett's books*) to get the question.
*Although if you haven't read any of Pratchett's books, you really should correct that oversight as quickly as possible.
It is a minor point in the book that one of the characters reads trashy bodice-rippers. The author of the novels in question is named Iradne Comb-Buttworthy. At one point in the book, the character who reads the books muses to herself that the author's name is an obvious anagram for a (presumably unflattering) phrase that could describe her, the reader.
It's just an offhanded comment, and deciphering the anagram is left as an exercise to the reader.
I've tried it. Leaving the letters in their words gets you nowhere. But there are too many common letters. I plugged the phrase in to the Internet Anagram Server, and it came up with 50,001 possibilities. Even pulling out the word "Woman" only brings it down to 10,378.
So far, the top possibility including the word "Woman" looks most likely to me:
Hot Rutty Cribbed Woman
Except I'm not sure the word "cribbed" really works, unless it's some kind of slang for "repressed".
I'm pretty sure Chubby Rat-Witted Moron isn't it. And I don't think Bitchy is going to be in the phrase. I've skimmed through thousands of nonsense possibilities, but nothing jumped out at me.
Oh, and I of course started out by searching Google, Answers.com, Wikipedia, and the forums on Terry Pratchett Books. I couldn't find anyone even asking the question.
Thoughts/suggestions, anyone?
But there's one thing in the book I need to ask about. It's not spoilery and you don't have to have read the book (or any of Pratchett's books*) to get the question.
*Although if you haven't read any of Pratchett's books, you really should correct that oversight as quickly as possible.
It is a minor point in the book that one of the characters reads trashy bodice-rippers. The author of the novels in question is named Iradne Comb-Buttworthy. At one point in the book, the character who reads the books muses to herself that the author's name is an obvious anagram for a (presumably unflattering) phrase that could describe her, the reader.
It's just an offhanded comment, and deciphering the anagram is left as an exercise to the reader.
I've tried it. Leaving the letters in their words gets you nowhere. But there are too many common letters. I plugged the phrase in to the Internet Anagram Server, and it came up with 50,001 possibilities. Even pulling out the word "Woman" only brings it down to 10,378.
So far, the top possibility including the word "Woman" looks most likely to me:
Hot Rutty Cribbed Woman
Except I'm not sure the word "cribbed" really works, unless it's some kind of slang for "repressed".
I'm pretty sure Chubby Rat-Witted Moron isn't it. And I don't think Bitchy is going to be in the phrase. I've skimmed through thousands of nonsense possibilities, but nothing jumped out at me.
Oh, and I of course started out by searching Google, Answers.com, Wikipedia, and the forums on Terry Pratchett Books. I couldn't find anyone even asking the question.
Thoughts/suggestions, anyone?
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I found your post while searching for clues on that anagram.
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I should preview these things.
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(Would have been clearer, though, if he'd used a pair of commas or dashes. Ah well.)
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Yeaaahh, out of anyone in the Disc, it would be him to make up and sell silly romances, except i'm not sure he knows words like Boudoir.
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She says try
Romantic but bedworthy
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Anagram
I know Glenda isn't a moron, but the way the sentence is written implies to me that she's realised it's an insult but thinks it's probably right for the people who buy the rubbish novels.