Hapax Legomenon

The Art of the Singular

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Hapax Legomenon:

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th Ed) definition:

NOUN: pl. ha·pax le·go·me·na (-n)
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.

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