Ghost Words in the English Language

The English language has more words than any other language. It also has 'ghost words'. These are words that made it into the language by mistake.

"Dord" was a printing error in the Webster English Dictionary. Someone wrote "D or d", as a way to represent density in scientific English, and it was copied into the dictionary as Dord. Dord was in the dictionary for 8 years, and it is still used now as another way to write density. Languages change all the time, and when enough people use a new word, it becomes official!

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