Editing Lilliput and Blefuscu (section)

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[[File:Lilliput House.jpg|right|thumb|Lilliput House, overlooking [[Lough Ennell]] in [[County Westmeath]] ]]

* Lilliput is reputedly named after the townland of [[Lilliput (townland)|Lilliput]] on the shores of [[Lough Ennell]] near Dysart, just a few miles from [[Mullingar]], in [[County Westmeath]], Ireland. Swift was a regular visitor to the [[Robert Rochfort|Rochfort]] family at [[Gaulstown House]]. It is said that it was when [[Dean (Christianity)|Dean]] Swift looked across the expanse of Lough Ennell one day and saw the tiny human figures on the opposite shore of the lake that he conceived the idea of the Lilliputians featured in ''Gulliver's Travels''. In fact, the townland was known as Nure from ancient times and was renamed Lileput or Lilliput shortly after the publication of ''Gulliver's Travels'' in honour of Swift's association with the area. Lilliput House has stood in the locality since the 18th century.<ref>[http://www.lilliputboathire.com/in-the-area Lilliput House];retrieved 28 September 2020</ref>
* Lilliput and Blefuscu were the names used for Britain and France, respectively, in a series of semi-fictional transcripts (with mutated names of people and places) of debates in the [[Parliament of Great Britain|British Parliament]]. This series was written by [[William Guthrie (historian)|William Guthrie]], [[Samuel Johnson]], and [[John Hawkesworth (book editor)|John Hawkesworth]], and was printed in [[Edward Cave]]'s periodical ''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'' from 1738 to 1746.<ref>[http://www.samueljohnson.com/debates/ Samuel Johnson: The Parliamentary Debates / Debates in Parliament (Extracts)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307131843/http://www.samueljohnson.com/debates/ |date=7 March 2004 }}</ref>
* The word ''[[wikt:lilliputian|lilliputian]]'' has become an adjective meaning "very small in size", or "petty or trivial". When used as a noun, it means either "a tiny person" or "a person with a narrow outlook, who minds the petty and trivial things."
* The use of the terms "Big-Endian" and "Little-Endian" in the story is the source of the computing term ''[[endianness]]''.
* Neela Mahendra, the love interest in [[Salman Rushdie]]'s novel [[Fury (Rushdie novel)|''Fury'']], is an "Indo-Lilly", a member of the Indian Diaspora from the politically unstable country of Lilliput-and-Blefuscu.
* Several [[Phobos (moon)#Craters on Phobos|craters]] on Mars's moon [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]] are named after Lilliputians. Perhaps inspired by [[Johannes Kepler]] (and quoting [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|Kepler's third law]]), Swift's satire ''Gulliver's Travels'' refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 (the "Voyage to [[Gulliver's Travels#Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan|Laputa]]"), in which the astronomers of Laputa are described as having [[moons of Mars#Early speculation|discovered two satellites of Mars]] orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21.5 hours, respectively.<ref name=galileo>[http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath151/kmath151.htm MathPages – Galileo's Anagrams and the Moons of Mars].</ref>
* Lilliput is mentioned throughout the 2005 ''Malplaquet'' trilogy of children's novels by Andrew Dalton.<ref>Dalton, Andrew.''The Temples of Malplaquet''. Lutterworth Press 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-7188-3047-2}}</ref><ref>Dalton, Andrew. ''The Lost People of Malplaquet''. Lutterworth Press 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-7188-3050-2}}</ref><ref>Dalton, Andrew. ''The New Empire of Malplaquet''. Lutterworth Press 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-7188-3093-9}}</ref> Taking much of their initial inspiration from [[T. H. White]]'s ''[[Mistress Masham's Repose]]'', the books describe the adventures of a large colony of Lilliputians living secretly in the enormous and mysterious grounds of an [[English country house]] ([[Stowe House]] in Buckinghamshire). Their longed-for return to their ancestral homeland is one of the major themes of the stories.
* In the ''[[Gabby (film series)|Gabby]]'' cartoon shorts, it is the main and only major location mentioned.