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- Dord abstract "Dord is a notable error in lexicography, an accidental creation, or ghost word, of the G. and C. Merriam Company's staff in the second (1934) edition of its New International Dictionary, in which the term is defined as "density".Philip Babcock Gove, an editor at Merriam-Webster who became editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, wrote a letter to the journal American Speech, fifteen years after the error was caught, in which he explained why "dord" was included in that dictionary.On July 31, 1931, Austin M. Patterson, Webster's chemistry editor, sent in a slip reading "D or d, cont./density." This was intended to add "density" to the existing list of words that the letter "D" can abbreviate. The slip somehow went astray, and the phrase "D or d" was misinterpreted as a single, run-together word: Dord. (This was a plausible mistake because headwords on slips were typed with spaces between the letters, making "D or d" look very much like "D o r d".) A new slip was prepared for the printer and a part of speech assigned along with a pronunciation. The would-be word got past proofreaders and appeared on page 771 of the dictionary around 1934.On February 28, 1939, an editor noticed "dord" lacked an etymology and investigated. Soon an order was sent to the printer marked "plate change/imperative/urgent". In 1940, bound books began appearing without the ghost word but with a new abbreviation (although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show "dord" still present). The non-word "dord" was excised, and the definition of the adjacent entry "Doré furnace" was expanded from "A furnace for refining dore bullion" to "a furnace in which dore bullion is refined" to close up the space. Gove wrote that this was "probably too bad, for why shouldn't dord mean 'density'?" The entry "dord" was not removed until 1947.".
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- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Bullion.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictitious_entries.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lexicography.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Chemistry.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Density.
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- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Esquivalience.
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- Dord wikiPageWikiLink File:Dord.jpg.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Frindle.
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- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Lexicographic_error.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Lexicography.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Merriam-Webster.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink New_Oxford_American_Dictionary.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Philip_Babcock_Gove.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Websters_Dictionary.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLink Websters_Third_New_International_Dictionary.
- Dord wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dord".
- Dord wikiPageWikiLinkText "dord".
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- Dord subject Category:Fictitious_entries.
- Dord subject Category:Lexicography.
- Dord hypernym Error.
- Dord type Disease.
- Dord type Hoax.
- Dord comment "Dord is a notable error in lexicography, an accidental creation, or ghost word, of the G. and C.".
- Dord label "Dord".
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- Dord wasDerivedFrom Dord?oldid=675795901.
- Dord isPrimaryTopicOf Dord.