hapax

• “The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.”

  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

• “In fact, the phrase pledge allegiance is what linguists call a hapax legomenon, or hapax for short an expression that only occurs in a single place in the language, like wardrobe malfunction, Corinthian leather, or satisfactual.”

  NPR: I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation

• “A hapax was a word that only ever appeared once - in a language or a body of writing.”

  Pressed rat, Warthog and the hapax

• “An exhaustive search of databases and legal tomes reveals that we have here what the Greeks called a hapax legomenon—a word of which only one use is recorded in all literature.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “This qualifies as what biblical exegetes call a hapax legomenon, the only known use in print, which makes it difficult to define.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “In fact, "pledge allegiance" is what linguists call a hapax legomenon, or hapax for short - an expression that only occurs in a single place in the language, like wardrobe malfunction, Corinthian leather or satisfactual.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “You can take this wherever you like, because under God is another hapax legomenon that doesn't occur anywhere else in modern English.”

  NPR: I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation

• “Really, the whole pledge is just one big hapax legomenon, a string of syllables that only comes to life in classrooms and school assemblies.”

  NPR: I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation

• “The key term in Andreas is that beauty of a hapax legomenon, sylf-ætan.”

  Fragments Shattered by History

• “The word muifu is a hapax and, in my view, doesn't even look like a properly shaped word.”

  Is Etruscan muifu even a word?

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