Fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years
The original fictitious entry from 1903
Zzxjoanw (ostensibly pronounced/ʃɔː/SHAW) is a fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported Māori word meaning "drum", "fife", or "conclusion".
Zzxjoanw (ostensibly pronounced /ʃɔː/ SHAW) is a fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported...
Hughes' Musical Guide (1903) is notable for including a definition for zzxjoanw, a fictitious entry that fooled lexicographers for seventy years.[citation...
debate competition was supposedly dominated by a Bangladeshi student. Zzxjoanw, a fictitious word that fooled logologists for 70 years. The 2010 Georgian...
Roman sport, apopudobalia, which resembles modern association football. Zzxjoanw was the last entry in Rupert Hughes's Music Lovers' Encyclopedia of 1903...