s e r i e s | d o r d : t w e n t y - s e v e n d e n s i t y s t u d i e s
A ghost word printed Webster's New International Dictionary of 1934, defined as a noun used by physicists and chemists meaning 'density'.
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.
The "D or d" entry ended up being typeset as a word, dord, and defined as a synonym for density.
The mistake was discovered in 1939.
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