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Questions about the history and trends of the English language.

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Etymology of English hapax legomenon (word that appears only once) "flother"

I was recently perusing the Wikipedia page for "Hapax legomenon", a term that refers to words that appear only once in a given corpus/context (rather than nonce words, which are words like "Jabberwock …
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