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- The word dord is a dictionary error in lexicography. It was accidentally created, as a ghost word, by the staff of G. and C. Merriam Company (now part of Merriam-Webster) in the New International Dictionary, second edition (1934). That dictionary defined the term as a synonym for density used in physics and chemistry in the following way: dord (dôrd), n. Physics & Chem. Abbreviation for density. Philip Babcock Gove, an editor at Merriam-Webster who became editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, wrote a letter to the journal American Speech, fifteen years after the error was caught, in which he explained how the "dord" error was introduced and corrected. On 31 July 1931, Austin M. Patterson, the dictionary's chemistry editor, sent in a slip reading "D or d, cont./density." This was intended to add "density" to the existing list of words that the letter "D" can abbreviate. The phrase "D or d" was misinterpreted as a single, run-together word: Dord. This was a plausible mistake, because headwords on slips were typed with spaces between the letters, so "D or d" looked very much like "D o r d". The original slip went missing, so a new slip was prepared for the printer, which assigned a part of speech (noun) and a pronunciation. The would-be word was not questioned or corrected by proofreaders. The entry appeared on page 771 of the dictionary around 1934, between the entries for Dorcopsis (a type of small kangaroo) and doré (golden in color). On 28 February 1939, an editor noticed "dord" lacked an etymology and investigated, discovering the error. An order was sent to the printer marked "plate change/imperative/urgent". The non-word "dord" was excised; "density" was added as an additional meaning for the abbreviation "D or d" as originally intended, and the definition of the adjacent entry "Doré furnace" was expanded from "A furnace for refining dore bullion" to "a furnace in which dore bullion is refined" to close up the space. Gove wrote that this was "probably too bad, for why shouldn't dord mean 'density'?" In 1940, bound books began appearing without the ghost word, although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show "dord" still present. The entry "dord" was not completely removed until 1947. (en)
- Kata dord adalah sebuah dalam leksikografi. Kata tersebut tak sengaja dibuat, sebagai kata hantu, oleh staf G. and C. Merriam Company (sekarang bagian dari Merriam-Webster) dalam , edisi kedua (1934). Kamus tersebut mendefinisikan istilah tersebut sebagai sinonim untuk kata density (massa jenis) yang dipakai dalam bidang fisika dan kimia dengan cara berikut ini: "dord (dôrd), n. Physics & Chem. Density." (in)
- Dord è un celebre errore lessicografico, una creazione accidentale (in inglese ghost word) della G & C Merriam Company incluso nella seconda edizione (1934) del suo New International Dictionary, in cui il termine è definito come "densità" (density). (it)
- 「dord」という英語の単語は、G・アンド・C・メリアム社（G. and C. Merriam Company、メリアム＝ウェブスターの前身）のスタッフによる偶然の手違いから生じた、幽霊語で、1934年に刊行された『ウェブスター新国際辞典第2版 (Webster's New International Dictionary (second edition, 1934))』に、物理学者や化学者が密度の意味で用いる言葉として定義され、掲載された。 (ja)
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- Kata dord adalah sebuah dalam leksikografi. Kata tersebut tak sengaja dibuat, sebagai kata hantu, oleh staf G. and C. Merriam Company (sekarang bagian dari Merriam-Webster) dalam , edisi kedua (1934). Kamus tersebut mendefinisikan istilah tersebut sebagai sinonim untuk kata density (massa jenis) yang dipakai dalam bidang fisika dan kimia dengan cara berikut ini: "dord (dôrd), n. Physics & Chem. Density." (in)
- Dord è un celebre errore lessicografico, una creazione accidentale (in inglese ghost word) della G & C Merriam Company incluso nella seconda edizione (1934) del suo New International Dictionary, in cui il termine è definito come "densità" (density). (it)
- 「dord」という英語の単語は、G・アンド・C・メリアム社（G. and C. Merriam Company、メリアム＝ウェブスターの前身）のスタッフによる偶然の手違いから生じた、幽霊語で、1934年に刊行された『ウェブスター新国際辞典第2版 (Webster's New International Dictionary (second edition, 1934))』に、物理学者や化学者が密度の意味で用いる言葉として定義され、掲載された。 (ja)
- The word dord is a dictionary error in lexicography. It was accidentally created, as a ghost word, by the staff of G. and C. Merriam Company (now part of Merriam-Webster) in the New International Dictionary, second edition (1934). That dictionary defined the term as a synonym for density used in physics and chemistry in the following way: dord (dôrd), n. Physics & Chem. Abbreviation for density. (en)
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