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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The inventor of Space Opera, E.E. Smith PH. D., always used Tellus, or even more formally SOL III (3rd planet out from Sol). However, by the 1950s science fiction was embarrassed by those old space operas (see the Literary Snob thread) and didn't want their (striving to be literarially accepted) writing to be associated with that old horrible pulp stuff. So they used Terra instead for the same definition.
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The idea that writers changed the Earth's name from an exact one to a kind of end(
r)earment in order to distinguish themselves reads like a synopsis of the history of slang.