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Did you know some words are complete accidents?

The word "dord" appeared in the dictionary in 1934, defined as "density." It was actually a typo for "D or d"!

Read the full story and discover more accidental words on my blog! www.atxeva.com/blog/oops-ho...

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Oops! How Accidental Words Sneak Into Our Dictionaries — atxEva Editing Services
Language is a living thing. It grows and changes, with new words popping up all the time. But sometimes, new words aren't born from clever slang, borrowing from other languages, or scientific discover...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
eissalot.bsky.social
she has taught me so much… i’m still proud of this one
“Crossing Maigh Eo” afterwards we walked sore-kneed bare soles on moor-grass, miles of that sky scraped clean like shineless tin scraped smooth by prevailing winds winds scattering ghostbones ghostwords caíngním láine réimm mòr-roinn words stuck in the dirt like cuttings dipped in rooting powder rooting rifling through the earth for ancestral meaning, heirloom meaning, finding only middens, time-scraped shells, hen joints, unburied ancestor. we walked, all of us seeking, hunger scraped our insides clean, pumice- edged, but we did not stop for hunger or for our names. listened only to ghostbone rattle, ghostword song— vital heirloom, ancestral insistence mòr-roinn réimm láine caíngním transmitted cross the span of years migrant, seeking, scraped clean of meaning, novel, tinted blue— purple once clicked on—we wondered if they hated us, thought us mealy- mouthed, traitor-mouthed, tongues pocked by strangers’ needles: songless. we listened for the song. gathering on the moor. still walking. still hungry.
April 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
pmcbride.bsky.social
Posting online helps vent your rage...but its not "doing"...you are not doing anything when you post. Ghostwords.

Action is needed. Today I withheld my dollars. Yesterday I voted. Tomorrow? Something. A thing. An action.

Please America. Stop posting. Take action.
March 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
yanina.bsky.social
Words and all the ghostwords trailing behind them.
February 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM