The Goldfish Chronicles

This weekend a Terry Pratchett book taught me the term Metasyntactic Variable - ie: wossname, thingamebob, doodah - though Wikipedia seems to think the correct term for these is Placeholder Name. The former sounds much better, the latter is just a wossname.

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