The greatest scientific typo in history

Or how the 1934 edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary accidentally created the word “Dord” as a scientific term for density…

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    To cut to the chase- “The original term was “D or d,” and was bound for the stack of words meant to be in the...
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    if you can read this without saying “dord” out loud to yourself a bunch and laughing every time i don’t want to know you
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