Skeat

Coined by philologist Walter William Skeat in 1886, ghost words are often the result of misreadings and typographical errors.

At home, he adores his pet ferrets, said defender Paige Harrington and forward Devon Skeats, who share a house with Browne.

Prof Walter Skeat, 19th-Century father of English etymology, thought at times that the word for a "loop" in a rope came from Celtic, at others that it was Scandinavian.

The 19th/early 20th Century philologist Walter William Skeat thought it might be of Scandinavian origin.

For the relationship of Chaucer’s anecdote to those in Latin see Skeat, note in his edition, Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, 1892, ii.