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Excellent list. For completion's sake, I'd include intentional typos as an instance of category 5. This can be hard to catch if the typo is in a name. A logic
by zuminator 9y ago
Excellent list. For completion's sake, I'd include intentional typos as an instance of category 5. This can be hard to catch if the typo is in a name. A logical extension of that would be entirely made-up names for non-essential people/places.
At the age of 5, Hawking visited Oxford, incidentally passing through Fakenamingham-on-Watermarkshire.
Dictionaries/encyclopedias have been known to insert entirely fake entries as a way of proving ownership.(http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-09-21/features/0509200275_1_electronic-dictionary-new-oxford-american-dictionary-new-yorker http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-09-21/features/05092...) In the age of ebooks and print-on-demand, those could be tailored to the individual licensee.
- jaclaz 9y ago>Dictionaries/encyclopedias have been known to insert entirely fake entries as a way of proving ownership. Just like non-existing places/roads on maps, so-called "trap-streets": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street and similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
- beautifulfreak 9y agoalso mountweazels https://www.thoughtco.com/mountweazel-words-term-1691330 https://www.thoughtco.com/mountweazel-words-term-1691330