452: Dord (Ghosts Word) Mar 4, 2016

Humans make mistakes, and, believe it or not, linguists are humans.
There are some words in certain dictionaries which appeared on account of printing-errors but mean nothing. The word “dord” appeared in some dictionaries for eight years in the mid-20th century. This sort of word is called a “ghost word”.
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