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** Innsmouth, the titular place from "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth". Even though the name is English in origin, the "th" at the end hints that something is [[IncrediblyLamePun fishy]] about this place...

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** Innsmouth, the titular place from "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth". Even though the name is English in origin, the "th" at the end hints that something is [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} fishy]] about this place...
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower: Morgoth, the Great Foe.
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* Literature/TheBible and related sources have a lot of this; the reason for this is that many Hebrew words end in the letter ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw tav]]'', as it is a marker for feminine gender (both in the singular and in the plural form ''-ot''). The ''-ot'' version is particularly common, thanks to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralis_excellentiae pluralis excellentiae]], i.e. "calling the singular thing plural to emphasize how awesome/terrible (classical sense) it is".[[note]]Examples: ''Behemot''="Wild Beasts"="One wild beast"; ''Elohim''="gods"={{God}} Almighty Himself, trying not to piss him off by saying His name.[[/note]] In Biblical Hebrew, final tav was pronounced ''-th'', which morphed to ''-s'' in Ashkenazi and ''-t'' in many Sephardi/Mizrahi dialects (which eventually became the model for Standard Hebrew).

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* Literature/TheBible and related sources have a lot of this; the reason for this is that many Hebrew words end in the letter ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw tav]]'', as it is a marker for feminine gender (both in the singular and in the plural form ''-ot''). The ''-ot'' version is particularly common, thanks to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralis_excellentiae pluralis excellentiae]], i.e. "calling the singular thing plural to emphasize how awesome/terrible (classical sense) it is".[[note]]Examples: ''Behemot''="Wild Beasts"="One wild beast"; ''Elohim''="gods"={{God}} Almighty Himself, trying not to piss him Him off by saying His name.[[/note]] In Biblical Hebrew, final tav was pronounced ''-th'', which morphed to ''-s'' in Ashkenazi and ''-t'' in many Sephardi/Mizrahi dialects (which eventually became the model for Standard Hebrew).



** Behemoth, a monstrous creature mentioned in the book of Job.

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** Behemoth, a monstrous creature mentioned in the book of Job.Literature/BookOfJob.

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* "Arrokoth" is a Powhatan word that, depending on the surviving material, either means "sky" or "cloud". [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth Apply to an asteroid]], however, and its wonderfully lovecraftian.
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** Saggith, the name used in the Kawatchi legends for [[{{Superman}} the Traveller's]] [[ComicBook/LexLuthor best-friend-turned-archenemy]].

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** Saggith, the name used in the Kawatchi legends for [[{{Superman}} [[Franchise/{{Superman}} the Traveller's]] [[ComicBook/LexLuthor best-friend-turned-archenemy]].

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