• psud
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    7 months ago

    Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?

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      7 months ago

      Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth

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        7 months ago

        I think I have only heard the term in:

        • The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
        • The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent

        I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps