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   From: nyelvmark@yahoo.com   
      
   Skitt wrote:   
      
   > The Century Dictionary has "hairbrained", and it is defined as an    
   > erroneous spelling of harebrained.   
      
   What a bizarre concept for a prescriptive dictionary - to include an    
   entry for a word, then deny that it's a word.   
      
   Were the same dictionary to be published today, would there be an    
   entry for "teh"?   
      
   Wikipedia says that the Century was the largest dictionary of its    
   time, with over 500,000 entries. Maybe this explains why.   
      
   Speaking of "teh", does anyone know what happened to Fabian?   
      
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