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info.com produced this remarkable little article: http://www.foodandwine.net/reviews/243.htmWarning: It's a review of a bar but if you scroll all the way down to the bottom you'll note that Mr Tullio drops the word epicaricacy in as though it were a commonly understood word that everybody knows. Could it be that the word is suddenly, before our very eyes, being resurrected from the dustbin of linguistic lassitude?
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Ha! Mr Tullio may be translating. Anybody looked up epicaricacía or similar? I would, but I got a baseball game to go to. 
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thanks Faldage; another prize for the "spotting obscure words" section!
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Hey. I didn't feel like scouting out epicaricacy in the article, so I decided to google the article so I could highlight epicaricacy. Problem is, google didn't find it.
Here's how I googled it:
"Food and Wine Net" [plus] epicaricacy
Google told me, "No go."
Why? What did I do wrong? Why didn't the article come up?
I'm going to try googling it other ways, but why didn't the above take me to the article? Are the google search engines tiring out?
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try: foodandwine +epicaricacy
the only place "food and wine net" appears on the page is in a graphic, which won't show up in a search.
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just as a curiosity and fwiw, googling 'epicaricacy' turns up this thread but not that *other site.
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Thanks, tsuwm, for explaining that. I should have figured it out about the graphics, but it's good to have that little bit of info filed away.
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here's someone else who evidently fell for the zzxjoanw "hoax" (see last link, below): http://www.mindbodyspirit.com.au/auth/b/bowlerpeter.htm"There are many words to learn and be amused. The first word is "abecedarian." The last word is "zzxjoanw." He recomends this word for Scrabble." (from an amazon review) [should you get this combination of letters (with a blank), a one in a googol chance, it could be successfully challenged anywhere in Known Space.] the author, Peter Bowler, should have known better, as he is evidently an aussie. this is still the best, last word on zzxjoanw: http://wordways.com/ghost.htm
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>he author, Peter Bowler, should have known better, as he is evidently an aussie.
Perché? It simply means he knows as much about Zild as most Aussies.
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Merriam-Webster cites the ghost word DORD (along with PHANTOMNATION) in their Web 3 definition of the term "ghost word.
Wow--what a great concept: a phantom nation! <grin>
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