Dord: the word without a meaning

                             


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Did you know that there is a word with no meaning in English (or at least there was)? In 1934, Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition published and included the word “dord”. This happened because chemistry editor Austin M. Patterson wrote it down on a piece of paper and stamped it. The interpretation should be something like “capital d and lowercase d are both used as abbreviation for ‘density’”, but the person who handled this thought Austin just forgot to put a space between the “o” and the “r” and placed a wavy line joining all the letters together and forming a single word. Thus, the word “dord” created. In 1939, an editor noticed the error and asked for a correction in the next printing.  


Author: Deilson Melo de Sousa, S3.

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