>Look, spellchecker
and I would have let yours pass as a typo, except you 'typoed' "barb" three times in making your jocular point.
p.s. - at no time have I presented "tetrabard" as anything other than a worthless word; but here's the other citation a used upon foisting this word on an unsuspecting public:
"The total number of words found in Shakespeare's
collected works and sonnets is 15,000, and some of
these are hapax legomena - words used only once
in the history of the printed word - such as
honorificabilitudinitatibus, which appears in Love's
Labour's Lost, act V, scene I. Linguistic studies have
shown that the average American high school graduate
has a vocabulary of 60,000 words. Steven Pinker has
dubbed it a tetrabardian vocabulary."
- Verónica Albin, Tanslation Journal, April 2005
On Dictionaries: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
http://accurapid.com/journal/32dictionaries.htm
p.p.s. - a good many wwftds are supported by OED3 and W3 evidence; often there is newer and
funner evidence to be found by googleizing(sp?). Some few wwftds have no "real" dictionary evidence; but in these cases I almost always expiscate some legitimate looking online evidence. There have been exceptions; I mark these as questionable or jocular. Also, I've found many good citations using Google(Books).
OP
