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		colanderman on June 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Dord': A Ghost Word There are in fact such words, e.g. "esquivalence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Oxford_American_Dictionary...

cgriswald on June 1, 2020 [–]

I don’t know how that can work in practice. If it’s in a dictionary, it might get used and then... it should be in other dictionaries. Do they cycle them in and out?

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