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Dictionary words & escapees

A list of 31 words by mollusque.

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Words that were created in dictionaries, glossaries, or lexicons, including

1) Words for which no evidence for their occurrence in print outside of dictionaries and glossaries has yet been found, but where the entries appear to be bona fide attempts to record their existence in a particular language (e.g., alabandical, pierelle).

2) Words inserted in dictionaries as jokes or hoaxes (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis), or to guard against copyright violations (esquivalience).

3) Words created to provide technical vocabulary in a particular subject area (cryptoscopophilia).

4) Words created by some form of editorial lapse (dord, pornial). These are called ghost words.

5) Variant spellings created by editorial attempts to standardize spelling (youngmannishness).

6) Words that are otherwise unrecorded forms (plurals, principle parts, back-formations) of documented words (cubomancies).

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