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Old 02-18-2012, 09:49 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
That's one thing Piers Anthony is good about. He even finds interesting names for his imagined countries. He got the name Xanth by taking the e off of Xanthe for example. And Michael Ende came up with some interesting ones in his book, 'The Neverending Story."
It was my understanding that he got Xanth from his name: Piers Anthony. Take the 's' from Piers and the 'Anth' from Anthony and you get Santh, or when you say his full name out loud, it sounds like Xanth.
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