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by RunSet 1146 days ago
I understand fake names and phone numbers are included in phone books for the same reason.
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Also dictionaries.

> In August 2005, The New Oxford American Dictionary gained media coverage when it was leaked that the second edition contained at least one fictional entry. This later was determined to be the word "esquivalience", defined as "the wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities", which had been added to the edition published in 2001. It was intended as a copyright trap, as the text of the book was distributed electronically and thus very easy to copy.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry