What typos have become words “in their own right”?
The only one I can think of is “filk”, which refers to a type of music popular among “fen” (science fiction fans). Filk is usually written in a pseudo-folk idiom but features topics drawn from science fiction or fantasy literature. Legend has it that the word was coined as a typo in the first WorldCon program, which was supposed to have a slot in it for “folk” music, but “filk” is what was printed.
Well the legend is that Cape Nome, Alaska was so named when the transcriber misread the surveyer’s writing which said ? Name by that point on the alaska coast.
I won’t vouch for its authenticity tho
grilf =girlfriend
cow-orker=co-worker
newsfroup=newsgroup
hing=hint
I’m an avid reader of the Hacker’s Jargon Lexicon.
inside joke between me and a friend: yrd=yes.
After that night we’d randomly shout it at eachother at school.
Og of course.
Hate to get all linguisticky and ruin your fun, but the spelling of words changes over time. Most of the words we have today were spelled different back in the day. A good example is the substitution of letters–they used to use what looked like an ‘f’ instead of an ‘s’, so “this” would look like “thif”.
Sorry. Boring. It’s Monday.
As I understand it, the “f”-looking thing was actually an “s” (in a different font?).
So what’s Filthy Pierre up to nowadays?
Actually, it was a medial s, meant to be used in the middle of a word.
ypivj yu[omh
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You might want to check out this thread that I started a few days ago (and which still appears to be going strong).
Barry