MAN'S RUIN FINDS A TIT

"...Vimes shook his head. "That always chews me up," he said. "People killing one another just because their gods have squabbled—"
"Oh, they’ve got the same god, sir. Apparently it’s over a word in their holy book, sir. The Elharibians say it translates as ‘god’ and the Smalies say it’s ‘man.’"
"How can you mix them up?”
“Well, there’s only one tiny dot difference in the script, you see. And some people reckon it’s only a bit of fly dirt in any case.”
“Centuries of war because a fly crapped in the wrong place?”
“It could have been worse,” said Carrot. “If it had been slightly to the left the word would have been ‘liquorice.’”..."
—Terry Pratchett, Jingo