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Master of The secret life of words
schopenhauer The word 'nickname' was originally 'an eke name', meaning an additional or added name.
Syllabus typo: The word syllabus does not exist in classical Latin or Greek; it is entirely the result of a printer's mistake.
schopenhauer The word 'pea' was created because English speakers mistakenly thought the singular word 'pease' was plural.
A word that entered a dictionary or reference work as a result of a printing, scribal, or typographical error. The famous example dord mistakenly appeared in a 1934 dictionary due to a misinterpreted abbreviation for density.
The word 'sherry' was back-formed because English speakers thought the Spanish city name 'Xeres' was what?
The word 'syllabus' was created due to a 15th-century printing error of which Roman author's manuscript?
How did the word 'umpire' lose its initial letter N from the original French word 'nompere'?
The word 'dunce' comes from the name of John Duns Scotus, who was originally respected as what?
What did the original phrase 'an eke name' mean before it became 'a nickname'?