Hapax legomenon or Googlewhack – sort of?
Posted By RichC on March 19, 2007
First, I suspect most of you will need a definition? Hapaxes, (pl. hapax legomena) is a word that occurs only once in the written record of a language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. Is related to a geekish pasttime referred to as “Googlewhacking” — A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words–both of which must be in Google’s dictionary, and without quotation marks–that returns a single result. A successful Googlewhack returns ‘Results 1-1 of (any number)’.
Now comes the sort of part … while trying to find some information about my new computer, I googled what I thought was the model of my computer (NX470XL) and was shocked to only see one entry? Hmm … how could this be until I glanced at the model more carefully — whoops, my mistake.
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