w de worde 1495 st jerome vitas patrum three monks an abbot with crosier over his shoulder a city


A professional scribe who in The Truth became the editor of the Disc's first newspaper, The Ankh-Morpork Times. He has an obsessive dislike of lying, which he has learned to work around in the name of journalism. In self-imposed exile from his background of wealthy noblehood, William works hard (and with varying degrees of success) to cast off the influence of his father, Lord de Worde, an arrogant speciesist[4] and bully. It has been suggested that by Going Postal he may have married his friend and editor, Sacharissa Cripslock. William also appears in Monstrous Regiment, reporting on the war in Borogravia, and is mentioned in Thud! and Making Money. According to Moist von Lipwig he is roughly the same age as Moist, who is 26 in Going Postal. His name is probably a play on the first two printers in England; William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde. He also bears certain similarities to Washington Irving. William de Worde's c-mail is


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