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Examples
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The key term in Andreas is that beauty of a hapax legomenon, sylf-ætan.
Fragments Shattered by History Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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If I remember well even Pilate had no idea what Jesus the Jews wanted him to kill Barabbas è ton Xriston legomenon.
Mythicist Misunderstanding James F. McGrath 2010
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Really, the whole pledge is just one big hapax legomenon, a string of syllables that only comes to life in classrooms and school assemblies.
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In fact, the phrase pledge allegiance is what linguists call a hapax legomenon, or hapax for short an expression that only occurs in a single place in the language, like wardrobe malfunction, Corinthian leather, or satisfactual.
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You can take this wherever you like, because under God is another hapax legomenon that doesn't occur anywhere else in modern English.
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They note that semikhah is a hapax legomenon (a word that appears only once in the Bible), and seek to interpret it.
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One of my favorites is a bit of a mouthful and two word phrase: hapax legomenon, “a word which occurs only once in either the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text.”
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I don't believe I have that listed in the pdf yet because I'm not sure what meaning to give it, being that it's a curious little hapax legomenon.
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I'm just afraid that one day I'll run into Syd Allan on a flight, and he'll ask my opinion of the translation of a particular hapax legomenon. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 7: 50 AM
Beowulf Hobbyists of the World, Unite! Richard Nokes 2006
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This analysis is more optimal since if we think of this as a game of cards, two attested words and a dis legomenon i.e. a word attested only twice beats two hapaxes any day.
Voodoo linguistics in Etruscology: the imaginary word 'naceme' 2007
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