Old man calling up from below: HEY YOU GIRL WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YA DOING Me, in coveralls, 200 ft up, painting word "TERRA" over "EARTH" on the big sign: I'm changing the name! Old man: YER WHAT Me: we colonized a new planet, so the old name goes. That's the rules sorry
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where are those even from
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They're from Rome, "tellus" and "terra" were synonyms for "Earth" in Latin Lewis being an erudite classicist, he may have made that choice because he knew that back in the day Roman pedants said "terra" was properly the name of the element and "Tellus" the goddess
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E. E. Smith used those in the Lensman books as well, though I don’t know if he had a particular reason for it.
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It sounds cooler
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