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Hen Hanna

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Apr 10, 2017, 10:56:16 AM4/10/17
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Is there a list of famous errors in (by) Skeat ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word

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Is there a list of famous [Ghost etymologies] by Skeat?



Skeat links the word 'gas' to the Dutch word for 'ghost': GAS, an aeriform fluid (Dutch) The term ... .......

Joyce was surely aware that “gas” derived from the Dutch word for “ghost”, as claimed in Skeat’s dictionary, which he possessed).


--- which was what Skeat thought, but now we think:

From Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Van Helmont. From Ancient Greek χάος ‎(kháos, “chasm, void”‎).


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Ruud Harmsen

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Apr 10, 2017, 12:05:04 PM4/10/17
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Just to make it readible for me, Agent translation quoted printable
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Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:56:14 -0700 (PDT): Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com>
scribeva:
>From Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Van Helmont. From Ancient Greek ???? ?(kháos, “chasm, void”?).
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>HH

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Ruud Harmsen

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Apr 14, 2017, 10:15:51 AM4/14/17
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Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:56:14 -0700 (PDT): Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com>
scribeva:
>Is there a list of famous errors in (by) Skeat ?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
[...]
>Skeat links the word 'gas' to the Dutch word for 'ghost': GAS, an aeriform fluid (Dutch) The term ... .......

I wrote this http://rudhar.com/lingtics/spooky.htm, inspired by your
questions.
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