Andrew Ingraham (New Bedford, MA, USA, 19 December 1841– Cambridge, MA, USA, 6 August 1905) was Headmaster of
Swain School before 1903.
He is credited with the invention of the
Gostak
Gostak is a meaningless noun that is used in the phrase "the gostak distims the doshes", which is an example of how it is possible to derive meaning from the syntax of a sentence even if the referents of the terms are entirely unknown. It is an ex ...
concept. He also edited various prefaces to standard literary texts.
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1841 births
1905 deaths
American school principals
American educators
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