Skeat
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Coined by philologist Walter William Skeat in 1886, ghost words are often the result of misreadings and typographical errors.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021
Prof Walter Skeat, 19th-Century father of English etymology, thought at times that the word for a "loop" in a rope came from Celtic, at others that it was Scandinavian.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2016
Skeat retranslated the inked inscription on the mummy's chest wrappings, announced that the boy's name was Panechates, son of Hatres.
From Time Magazine Archive
That of Hoccleve's Letter of Cupid, originally printed from Urry's text, has been revised with the aid of the collations published by Professor Skeat in his Chaucerian and Other Pieces.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
For the relationship of Chaucer’s anecdote to those in Latin see Skeat, note in his edition, Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, 1892, ii.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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