Monday 4 November 2013

Zeqex

Zeqex: noun. A word artificially created and introduced to the English dictionary one night by an anonymous person playing scrabble. The story goes that this person was unfortunate enough to be stuck with the letters "q," "x" and "z" without having any vowel but two "es." Frustrated, the man quickly seized the dictionary sitting on the table and scribbled the word zeqex in it to justify his use of this term in the game. His rivals, however, soon saw through the trick, not as much because of how terrible the handwriting was, but because the man forgot to write down a definition for his newly coined word. Therefore, we can only speculate what this word means and it is very likely that we will never find out, for the man who invented the word was later stoned for cheating.

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