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    What do Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, esquivalience and Lye Close all have in common?

    Question #104421. Asked by foosyerdoos. (Apr 05 09 11:56 AM)


    Datsmeharse

    All are made-up words designed to catch copywright infringers:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Virginia_Mountweazel
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience
    http://everything2.com/?node_id=1831416

    Apr 05 09, 12:11 PM
    Midget40

    They are all fictitious entries in reference material added as a 'copyright' tool

    Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is a fictional character, a copyright trap inserted into the 1975 New Columbia Encyclopedia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Virginia_Mountweazel

    "Esquivalience", according to the August 29, 2005 New Yorker article "Ink: Not a Word" by Henry Alford, is a fictitious entry in the New Oxford American Dictionary which was designed and included to protect copyright of the publication.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience

    Turning to the printed edition of the Bristol A to Z map, off Canynge Square, we find a Lye Close. Perhaps the only one in the country. It's not even in the index. If you visit Canynge Street, you'll find a pleasant, leafy Georgian-looking street, without a Lye Close anywhere to be seen.

    That's because Lye Close is a Trap Street.

    Trap Streets
    Trap streets are deliberately added to maps as a kind of watermark

    http://everything2.com/title/Trap%2520Street


    Apr 05 09, 12:11 PM


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