The non-word of the year 2011 is "Kebab murders".
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Danish
1 entries- nonord noun (non-word)
Polish
1 entries- niesłowo noun (non-word)
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The non-word for the year 2011 is "Döner murders".
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This linguistics textbook, like many others, precedes nonwords with an asterisk; for example, *narbletome.
Source: wiktionary
[…] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").
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