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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 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

5 answers

I searched wikipedia and reference.com and it looks like you've got them all. I guess you could luck out and find somebody who knows the 100s from the Bible like you say, but it looks like you've already got the major ones.

2006-12-11 18:41:26 · answer #1 · answered by Cynthia W 4 · 0 0

* "A Clockwork Orange" used original vocabulary, adapted from Russian. I would check there.

* I have used the word "abheld" for knowledge suppressed in the subconscious but still present, and later brought out.

* Freud or some other psychologists have coined their own terms. Did you try checking Scientology publications?

* If you find the word "isocracy" used anywhere, I would like to know. It appears on my website, but most people have never heard of it, or don't believe it can exist.

2006-12-12 13:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by emilynghiem 5 · 0 0

These words are special to me.I hate the word dead.The word Barbarian conjures up to me, a people devoid of culture, not appreciating finer things in life, such as music; a people to whom you cannot appeal to their sense of decency. A real rabble, a mob crowd.I love the words : calypso,fete, because they are exotic words. I love wheel, which was created centuries ago and no-one has come up with a better idea for travel ling around quickly since then .I love , also the words rhythm and music.

2006-12-12 02:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5 · 0 2

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! From Mary Poppins of course!

2006-12-12 02:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by sweetsouth 3 · 2 1

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2006-12-12 02:55:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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