Talk:ghost

RFC

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An anon (varied IP) has been adding numerous translations for numerous languages, many of which are suspect. Could experts in various languages please look over and correct/remove translations? --EncycloPetey 04:35, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I have converted the RFC to TTBCs so that each language can be checked individually. This RFC would, frankly, be impossible to close, because the closer would need to be fluent in every listed language... whereas, the TTBCs preserve the information while waiting for speakers of each language to double-check the translations in their own time. - -sche (discuss) 05:25, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

People, please join on cleaning this one. If it's messy, it will take some time to clean up. Would be great to list only translations added by the suspicious IP, then it would be easier to check. Many of contributors will never come back and we may not be able to check the translations ourselves. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:30, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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RFV-sense: "(paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry." (Needs to be distinct from the other senses.) - -sche (discuss) 06:10, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 23:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

gogol

Does this word for ghost in Albanian derive from the writer Nikolaj Gogol? 83.83.59.46 17:41, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Orthography

The article lacks explanation of the GH spelling, from Old Dutch Gheest (modern geest), as the books were early printed in the Netherlands, according something I read.--Manfariel (talk) 15:15, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

A long-term school truant who has fallen out of the system?

I spotted this mention:

• 1982, Martin Roy Haskell, ‎Lewis Yablonsky, Juvenile Delinquency (page 144)

  He is one of possibly 90,000 youngsters listed by the Board of Education as long-term absentees and frequently referred to as "ghosts." Instead of going to school, they crowd department stores, the Port Authority bus terminal, the Bronx Zoo, Central Park, Coney Island. They wander the hallways of other schools.

Equinox ◑ 19:24, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Someone of whom there is no record

The Color Of A Ghost: (The Secret Coloring Book For Adults

Delia Dobbs · 2016

"He's a ghost. No jail time, no jobs that required fingerprints, no military service, nothing. No school records. No hospital. The FBI can't find anything on him. It's like he just doesn't exist.”

General Vicinity (talk) 16:02, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Threebooks.google.co.uk › books

G. S. Jennsen · 2015

“He's a ghost—no identity, no fingerprints, no records, and there's not enough left of his eyes for a retinal scan.

General Vicinity (talk) 16:04, 31 December 2021 (UTC)