Ghost word (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ghost word" in English language version.

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Skeat, Walter William; Presidential address on 'Ghost-Words' in: 'Transactions of the Philological Society, 1885-7, pages 343–374'; Published for the society by Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London, 1887. May be downloaded at: https://archive.org/details/transact188500philuoft
Scott, Walter. The Monastery. Chapter 10, page 156. Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1820. https://archive.org/details/monasteryaroman00scotgoog
Homer; Fagles, Robert; Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker (10 September 1990). "The Iliad". New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking. p. 4 – via Internet Archive.
William Shepard Walsh; Henry Collins Walsh; William H. Garrison; Samuel R. Harris (1890). American Notes and Queries. Westminster Publishing Company. p. 93. Available at: [1]
Wendell Herbruck (November 2008). Word Histories - A Glossary of Unusual Word Origins. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4437-3186-7. Available at: [2]

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David Mills (20 October 2011). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 526–. ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6.
William Shepard Walsh; Henry Collins Walsh; William H. Garrison; Samuel R. Harris (1890). American Notes and Queries. Westminster Publishing Company. p. 93. Available at: [1]
O'Reilly, Edward (10 September 2018). "An Irish-English Dictionary". J. Barlow – via Google Books.
Wendell Herbruck (November 2008). Word Histories - A Glossary of Unusual Word Origins. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4437-3186-7. Available at: [2]

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Eckler, Jr., A. Ross (November 2005). "The Borgmann Apocrypha". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 38 (4): 258–260.

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Dan Pordes (20 September 2011). "iPhone photos like you've never seen". CNN Travel.

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"Ár dtéarmaí féin".

eki.ee

"[ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat". eki.ee. Retrieved 2024-02-19.

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Emily Brewster. "Ghost Word". part of the "Ask the Editor" series at Merriam-Webster.com.

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Michael Carr (1983). "A Lexical Ghost Story: *Vicious hair" (PDF). Jinbun Kenkyū (人文研究. 66: 29–44. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-11. Carr (p. 40) suggests "vicious hair" for kusege (癖毛) originated through false analogy from Kenkyusha's waraguse (悪癖 "bad/vicious habit; vice") entries.

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dictionary.reference.com

"dord". Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved February 21, 2012. In sorting out and separating abbreviations from words in preparing the dictionary's second edition, a card marked "D or d" meaning "density" somehow migrated from the "abbreviations" stack to the "words" stack.

web.archive.org

Michael Carr (1983). "A Lexical Ghost Story: *Vicious hair" (PDF). Jinbun Kenkyū (人文研究. 66: 29–44. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-11. Carr (p. 40) suggests "vicious hair" for kusege (癖毛) originated through false analogy from Kenkyusha's waraguse (悪癖 "bad/vicious habit; vice") entries.

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Borgmann, Dmitri A. (1967). Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 79–80, 146, 251–254. OCLC 655067975.