History Literature / Discworld

** In {{Discworld\Jingo}}, a D'reg refers to ships as a camel of the water.

* SandIsWater: The Dehydrated Ocean.
** Technically not sand but a fourth state of water that occurs in a high density magical field.

* NonsenseClassification: The four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

* {{Glamour}}: The Elves' greatest weapon.

* TheCommandments: The three rules of the Librarians of Space and Time are:
##Silence.
##Books must be returned no later than the last date shown.
##Do not interfere with the [[TimeyWimeyBall nature of causality.]]

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean: The novels make fairly heavy usage of innuendo and oblique references to disguise more adult subjects, either for humor (drinking songs like "A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End" and "The Hedgehog Song"[[hottip:*:At least the canon verses, all of which are cut off before any explicit lyrics]]) or for delicacy (King Lorenzo the Kind is only described as being "very fond of children" in the series itself - this is plainly doubletalk for "sadistic pedophile").
** And don't forget the seamstresses!
*** ...A-hem, hem...

* InTheLocalTongue: Discussed several times. For example, their equivalent of Ayer's Rock is "Your finger, you fool!" in native Four-Eks-ian. (See Real Life and Urban Legends below.)

* [[{{ptitley72npfsy}} Men Can't Keep House]]: Suggested several times to be the case with the City Watch, particularly the canteen. The arrival of female Watchmen didn't seem to have any effect.

-->'''The Librarian''': Ook [[hottip:*:Sooner of later, graveyards are full of ''everybody'']].

* AWorldwidePunomenon: Pratchett likes to include at least one silly pun, [[RunningGag]], or play on words, per book.

* ''Discworld/NannyOggsCookbook''
* ''Discworld/TheFolkloreOfDiscworld''
* ''Discworld/TheWitAndWisdomOfDiscworld''

* The Mapps

** ''Game/TheColourOfMagic''
** ''VideoGame/{{Discworld}}''

** And then, of course, there's [[ThatsRuleOne Rule One]]: "Do not act incautiously when dealing with small, bald, smiling, wrinkled, apparently harmless old men!"

* DeFictionalization: A number of board/card games appear in the novels, and several of them have been given real life versions, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thud_(game) Thud!]] being one example. StealthChess, for example, is a [[VariantChess chess variant]]; Thud! is based on the ancient Norse game of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hnefatafl hnefatafl]], as befits a game of [[NorseMythology dwarves and trolls]].

* ''Film/TerryPratchettsHogfather'' MadeForTVMovie (2006), an adaptation of ''Hogfather''.

As of October, 2011, there are thirty-nine books in the series, five of them young-adult, as well as several short stories. There are also [[SpinOff Discworld calendars, diaries, maps]], [[UniverseCompendium compendia]], three {{Video Game}}s[[hottip:* :Four if you include the ''Colour Of Magic'' 1986 text adventure]], three {{Board Game}}s[[hottip:* :Two based on the setting, and the {{Defictionalised}} chess-analogue Thud]], and a pen and paper {{RPG}}, each with [[WordOfGod additional background information]] about the Disc. All the books have been adapted for the stage, two have become animated series, and three (technically four, as ''The Colour of Magic'' and ''The Light Fantastic'' were filmed as a single story under the former title, but the second is a direct follow-on) have become live-action {{Made For TV Movie}}s. Disney is also working on a hand drawn animated version of ''Mort'', and a ''cop show'' based around the Ankh-Morpork Watch is in the works. Yes, really.

As of October, 2011, there are thirty-nine books in the series, five of them young-adult, as well as several short stories. There are also [[SpinOff Discworld calendars, diaries, maps]], [[UniverseCompendium compendia]], three {{Video Game}}s[[hottip:* :Four if you include the ''Colour Of Magic'' 1986 text adventure]] and a pen and paper {{RPG}}, each with [[WordOfGod additional background information]] about the Disc. All the books have been adapted for the stage, two have become animated series, and three (technically four, as ''The Colour of Magic'' and ''The Light Fantastic'' were filmed as a single story under the former title, but the second is a direct follow-on) have become live-action {{Made For TV Movie}}s. Disney is also working on a hand drawn animated version of ''Mort'', and a ''cop show'' based around the Ankh-Morpork Watch is in the works. Yes, really.

As of May, 2011, there are thirty-eight books in the series, five of them young-adult, as well as several short stories. There are also [[SpinOff Discworld calendars, diaries, maps]], [[UniverseCompendium compendia]], three {{Video Game}}s[[hottip:* :Four if you include the ''Colour Of Magic'' 1986 text adventure]] and a pen and paper {{RPG}}, each with [[WordOfGod additional background information]] about the Disc. All the books have been adapted for the stage, two have become animated series, and three (technically four, as ''The Colour of Magic'' and ''The Light Fantastic'' were filmed as a single story under the former title, but the second is a direct follow-on) have become live-action {{Made For TV Movie}}s. Disney is also working on a hand drawn animated version of ''Mort'', and a ''cop show'' based around the Ankh-Morpork Watch is in the works. Yes, really.

* Discworld/{{Snuff}} (Oct 2011 - The eighth Watch book)

* [[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]] (2005- The City Watch)

* Discworld/WheresMyCow (2005 - The City Watch; tie-in with ''Thud!'')

* CerebusRollercoaster: The series has gotten darker and more mature over the years, all without quite losing its sense of humor. And yes, Pratchett even plays with this trope, contrasting the dark ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' with the moderately lighthearted ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' followed by the dark ''{{Discworld/Thud}}!'' followed by the moderately lighthearted ''Discworld/MakingMoney'' followed by the even more lighthearted ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' followed by the pitch black ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight''...