"Desomebodyandada" Dictionary Glitch
The SD dictionary (the Chambers Harrap part) gives the following example under the entry for stampede:
there was a stampede for the door -> hubo una desomebodyandada hacia la puerta
Frankly, desomebodyandada doesn't sound like a word to me, so I Googled it to see if it was ever used. And it turns out that the only place on the whole clutter-filled internet that it is ever used is... the Chambers Harrap dictionary on SpanishDict! (Okay, and one other site that has clearly copied and pasted a definition from that dictionary. But still. You get the point.) It also appears in the SD dictionary under the entry for "rampage":
to rampage about -> ir en desomebodyandada
I mean, I was inclined to give it a chance because it's in a dictionary, but really, it doesn't look like a word. It has the word "somebody" in it, the 'dy' combination doesn't sound Spanish, it's outrageously long... It just looks made up, like some sort of glitch in the dictionary where the word "somebody" has been stuck into the middle of the perfectly fine word desandar. And all the examples make sense if you replace desomebodyandada with desbandada.
I did do a search before asking this question and found this thread by Alba, where it appears that the same thing had happened to the entry for desbandada, though that seems to have been fixed.
Anyway, I don't know if SpanishDict can edit content from Chambers Harrap, but I thought I'd bring it up.
3 Answers
There was an error like this on Spanishdict.com some time ago which was a result of a 'search and replace' error in the page html code. If I recall correctly, Paralee found it or corrected it or something. I'm thinking this error is the same thing, but I have no idea if it would be from this site or from the dictionary server..
I noticed this before, and what I think happened was someone did a "search and replace" for the letters "sb" and it was replaced with the word "somebody."
Please report these errors directly to Paralee who is in charge of fixing them.
SpanishDict uses a number of different sources to provide the information you see. Unfortunately, what is contained in those sources is outside of the control of SD.
If you like that answer to desomebodyandada, what unitil you see how the Velazquez dictionary pronounces ésta ... look it up and say it out loud!
To be able to at least contend here, I bought a dictionary from Vox ... I think I could have done better making up some of the answers myself.
