Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words

Video written by Tristan Purdy

[JabbaWokkey]

"Every dictionary has one mistake" was, in my humble opinion, the best joke so far this year

[ArtStoneUS]

I was expecting it to be a mechanism to detect copyright violations, in the same way that map creators add fictitious places

[theclashingcrafter]

"Can you guess which one it is?"

_Me who just watched dord from Vsauce_
*Oh you have no idea the amount of knowledge I'm carrying*

[EonityLuna]

Legit tho “dord” would sound like a great way to call someone dense i.e. stupid. 👀

“You are such a dord!”

[NotNonamelol]

„If you read the dictionary any other book is a remix.“ - someone somewhen

[TheCheck]

Dumb dictionary people: Um..uh we made a mistake we are sorry.
Me, a smart man: It was a completely intentional copyright trap so other publishers don't rip-off our dictionary.

[OhThatEdit]

Because they are the boss of their own language

[ChengTeoh]

Now I definitely know what I'm calling all those Institutional traders who continue to short GME ... a dirty SNOLLYGOSTER! ;)

[vincentquinn]

Imagine waking up in a parallel universe where everyone says "fneeze" and looks at you like your crazy when you say "sneeze"

[bryanlane]

Just wanna say I love this channel. No filler, good jokes, fast sponser plugging, and actually fully as interesting. Nice.

[secondfinance]

Next video on Wendover:
The logistics of dictionaries

[Winasaurus]

Okay, so when I misspell something in my essay, and the teachers act like I've committed a war crime. Edwin Sandys does it and they just make it into a brand new word so that it doesn't count as misspelling in the first place. This is some extreme favouritism honestly.

[dippyk]

HAI: "Full of fake words like... ...bricks"
CIA: We finally got him

[jasonhatt]

Because fake dictionaries have real words, so it’s only fair.

[pavlo]

A better question is why fake dictionaries have real words.

[georgf]

I thought this would be about the fake words they mix in to catch copycats.

[DylanWebb]

Bendover productions sounds like a great channel

[Bairdicus]

Misread as “Why real dictators have fake words”. Only realised at the end when no Kim. Still waiting for Kim.

[weijiafang]

Similar thing happens in Chinese character sets. One legend is as follows:
Somebody working for JIS X 0208 (a pre-Unicode Japanese standard) needed 𡚴 (山 above 女), a character that could not be typed on his Japanes typewriter. Instead, he typed something beginning with 山 (like 峯) and something ending with 女 (like 姿), cut the respective parts out, and pasted them together. However, the slit between two pieces of paper was mistaken as one more stroke after being faxed, and so we have 妛 (ㄓ above 女), a "fake" character that went into Unicode through JIS X 0208.

[dansamuelb]

I kept telling my friends “irregardless” was not a word but dictionaries added it.