Known as spurious or ghost words, they are there, complete with convincing definitions, as the result of error. The 19th century scholar William WalterSkeat savagely described them as “coinages due to the blunders of printers or scribes, or the per-fervid imaginations of ignorant or blundering editors.”

And article about the raise in tuition fees for universities in the UK.

And you thought your vocabulary was good? Try spelling these words right.

It would be a nightmare to have all these awful words on a spelling test.

Modern English is not 100% English as the title goes. Modern English has over the centuries assimilated words from many different languages.

A history of the luxury Thames slipper launches between the Wars.