Talk:aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic

RFV discussion: July–October 2022
J3133 (talk) 20:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC)


 * It looks like a rare misspelling of already rare . --Lambiam 21:21, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * This is apparently attributed to 18th-century author Dr. Edward Strother, who writes about "Bristol water" using at least some of the parts of the compound, but doesn't use the whole word in writing anywhere. It looks like a ghost word, said to have appeared in at least one addition of the OED, but it apparently has never been used in anything that Google will show text for. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:01, 23 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I found one jocular use of the spelling with o, Citations:aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. - -sche (discuss) 22:09, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed. Searching for this word is a bit fraught, because the longer the word, the greater the potential for (a) scannos, and (b) hyphenations that the OCR fails to handle properly. But there is certainly no evidence for this (mis)spelling, and hardly any for the real spelling either. This, that and the other (talk) 08:49, 7 October 2022 (UTC)