Ghost Words and Mountweazels: Mistakes in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

This is great. Reminds me of mondegreens, another phenomenon of mistaken language:

> A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Thinking of Mountweazels and trap streets, I wonder if a similar concept exists in software. Maybe patents with non-obvious but critical flaws or useless embellishments put into the documents, or interfaces with extra fields or methods to trap wholesale copying.

One problem with made up word like "esquivalience" is that many people loves new nice words appearing in dictionary. Maybe, dictionnary.com has not commit a copyright violation, but just followed a hype.