"gohr" not in English dictionaries? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/20/2009 04:26 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>Depends.  Do other English speakers returning from Egypt use it?  Or is
>it simply an Egyptian word which Werne (or O'Reilly), having no English
>word which fulfilled its purpose, used a few times?

Which is what I was implicitly asking.  OK -- so far it's a ... hapax
legomania? a word used by only one author (or translator), but
compulsively many times?

Joel

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org