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A ghost word called dord lived in Webster's New International Dictionary from 1934, defined as a synonym for density. It was born when an index card reading "D or d" was filed as a word rather than an abbreviation.

The slip survived multiple printings before anyone caught it, a reminder that appearing in a dictionary does not prove a word exists.

Source: As "Dord" Shows, Being in the Dictionary Doesn't Always Mean Something's a Word, Smithsonian Magazine

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Tulip Table
Eero Saarinen · 1957 · Knoll

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