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Ghost word

Known as: Ghost-word 
A ghost word is a word published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work, having rarely, if ever, been used in practice, and… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
국어사전의 표제어 늘리기와 ‘유령어’ 범주의 문제
The purpose of this study to examine the situations of increase of the number of headwords that has been pointed out as a bad… 
2009
2009
Research and Interpretation of the Characters on the Han Stone Reliefs
This paper introduces and explores the phonetic loan characters, variant characters on Han Stone Reliefs. It also renders… 
2009
2009
An Avestan ghost word: auuah- ‘water’
2008
2008
La curiosa historia de una palabra fantasma: ‘çainana’
At the beginning of the 18th century, printed Basque lexicographic compilations were scarce. That state of affairs made Freret… 
2006
2006
Learning to Extract Semantic Content from the Orthographic Structure of Chinese Words
Different languages tend to represent different cultural and conceptual perspectives on the world. To the originating culture… 
2000
2000
Kareínon: a Ghost-word in the Scholia to Lucian
L'A. analyse l'occurrence du mot Kαρeι`νων, decele dans un passage de l'ouvrage Scholia in Lucianum (Rabe, 1906). Le probleme est… 
1997
1997
The noun mattar (prison) : A possible ghost word in the Lexicon of Middle Western Aramaic
Le Dictionnaire de l'arameen palestinien juif elabore par Michael Sokoloff represente une avancee majeure dans la lexicographie… 
1994
1994
Annalis incola: eine «ghost word» in einer Inschrift aus Buthrotum
Inscription portant sur la ville de Butrint (Epire) et remontant au dernier quart du 1er s. av. notre ere 
1989
1989
Kontonaitor : a ghost word
1980
1980
A Ghost-Word : νειλοκαλάμη
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