[rescue] Re: rescue Digest, Vol 17, Issue 138

[Caleb Shay]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 08:16, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2004, at 7:05 AM, Caleb Shay wrote:
> 
> > Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   Perhaps.  But I try not to associate with "mundanes".
> >>
> >>
> >> Hmm, I thought the word was "Muggles."
> >>     Greg
> >
> > Then you obviously never read any Xanth books.
> 
> I"ve never read them either.  Is that how the slang came into the 
> community?

I don't know if that is how it came into the community, but it's what
I've always assumed.  In the Xanth books our world is called "Mundania",
so people from here are "Mundanes".  The title of one of the books
dealing with a person from our world is "Man From Mundania".

Cheers,

Caleb