True - but it made me smile

1 Nov 2011

In the 1934 Websters the word "Dord" appeared defined as "density".
It has never again appeared in any English dictionary anywhere.

What had happened was that someone had made a note on an entry slip (all pen and paper in those days) which was intended to aply to "D" as an abbreviation and read:

D =density

Someone else realised that the lower case letter was also used, so the slip was replaced by one which read:

D or d =density

And an overworked compositor correctly set:

D or d =density

but an equally overworked proof reader corrected this to

Dord =density

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26 Nov 2011

where on earth did you find an obscure fact like that????

26 Nov 2011

In the UK, there was a car called the Nissan Colt. They were going to do a series of similar name, but one was called the Nissan Starion - it should have been STALLION, but the accent thing made it come out wrong!! (allegedly, my dad told me that, it could be wrong!)