Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I always heard it as ‘deosil and widdershins’

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• CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  As a non-native English reader, I now am not sure if this is a Pratchett reference or if these are actual round world terms…

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Pratchett’s just using real-world (albeit archaic) terms: widdershins and deosil.

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• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  widdershins

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  • Squirrel@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ironically, I believe ‘turnwise’ is the one that’s made up – by Terry Pratchett.

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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  GNU Terry Pratchett

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