Hapax Legomenon: Words that only appear once in their language.
So far I have:
Shakespeare’s “Honorificabilitudinitatibus”
(A Word from Act Five, Scene One of Love’s Labour’s Lost)
Hesiod’s “Autoguos”
Chaucer’s “Nortelrye”
A “Flother” is a snowflake circa, just once, 1275
Job's Gvina (Bible Cheese)
The Bible appearently has 100s????
“Croatoan” carved in a trunk of Roanoke’s Tree.
Islamic Satanic verse word:Gharaniq
(In Arabic تلك الغرانيق العلى وإن شفاعتهن لترتجى.)
Grateful dead had Aoxomoxoa (OX-OH-MOX-OH-AH".)
Geoge Bernard Shaw spelled fish “Ghoti”
(enouGH, wOmen, naTIon, )
Zotz,
and L. Frank Baum's "Pyrzqxgl", from the Magic of Oz, though the word appears multiple times, but only in that work.
ANY OTHERS??????????????
2006-12-11
18:34:18
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