Wordface

A play on words with the “coalface”. Translators could be said to work at the wordface and might suggest “Getting back to the wordface!” to mean get back to work. The term apparently originates from Terry Pratchett’s “Going Postal”.

A few feet beyond there was the familiar wall of letters, packed as tight as rock strata. A watchman had been in here, too. Someone had tried to break through the wordface, and Moist could see the hole.