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• Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?

  (Miscellany)
  
  

  
  From: david@frnk303.franklin.com (David Justice)
  
  > For what it's worth, I worked a few years at Merriam-Webster (late
  > 1980s) and can attest that we never deliberately inserted false
  > stuff for purposes of catching plagiarists.  For one thing, every
  > dictionary I've ever examined has been all too full of
  > *un*intentional errors, and they could serve the same purpose.
  
     On the other hand, books such as _Who's Who_ do have fictitious
  entries.

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Miscellany: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 6048), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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