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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was just reading about this. This is a type of neologism known as a Ghost Word!

the classic example (you may have heard from Vsauce) is Dord.

It's funny how I would see this the very next day after learning about it! (Even though that may not be true for the rest of you.) Anyone know what THAT phenomenon is called?

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe some sort of aberrant Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (frequency illusion)? Although that is usually more like, I bought a Camry and now I see them everywhere, but they were everywhere before- I just didn't notice until I had one.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I think that was the one I was thinking of

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