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** Several characters are also noted for their ability to pronounce punctuation and italics. The sort of people who can pronounce [[Wiki Words]].
** There's one paragraph in ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' which appears to be a multi-line sentence of dialogue by the main character, only to have the quotes followed by "is what he did ''not'' say, because ..."
*** There's a similar trick in ''[[Men
** ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' also feature's a greengrocer who suffer's from a bad ca'se of "Greengrocer's apostrophe", as in "Red Apples's". His speech is peppered with apostrope's where they arent needed, and its missin'g them where they are.
*** We find out in ''[[Making Money]]'' that thi's is required by grocer's guild rule's.
** Carrot can pronounce "d*
** In several books, when a character mentions something Important, it is written with the First Letter in each word Capitalized. Other characters note that they can Hear the Capital Letters.
*** The 25th anniversary release of the paperbacks fix many of these that were previously left out. YAY!
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