[forbiddenlake]

The point of the article wasn't how to define a word, it was answering why old code mentioned the dict protocol in the same regex as http and ftp.

I for one had never heard of the dict:// protocol, so I was curious about it.

[akho]

This is not old code. Old code did not have dialer (tel:) urls. Given the timing, the dict it refers to is also not the original one, but the Safari link scheme.