[Lexicog] Using old dictionaries

[Ronald Moe]

Now we know how those weird words entered the language.

Ron

 

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I remember learning from my dialectology professor (some 30+ years ago) that
a practice among dictionary publishers was to throw in a made-up entry or
two, so that if those spurious entries showed up in someone else's
dictionary, plagiarism could be proven.

-- David Frank



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