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Hapax Legomena and Zipf’s Law | Wired Science | Wired.com

Ever used the word “snowcrie”? I doubt it. In fact, “snowcrie” doesn’t even have a definition.

As far as we know, according to the Oxford English Dictionary it was a typo of sorts. It occurred in 1402 when the following line was written in a poem: “Not in Goddis gospel, but in Sathanas pistile, wher of sorowe and of snowcrie noon is to seken.” This really doesn’t make sense and scholars think it is likely a scribal error and was meant to be “sorcerie.”




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