Ghost Words: Words Without Meaning
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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.”
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Twelve Words That Should be in the Dictionary But Aren’t
Don’t you have that? You’re writing a fabulous piece but then there’s something you want to say and there’s no word for it! Here’s a list of words that I was forced to invent, and that should have been in the Webster ages ago.














