I have a copy of the book right here with me and Ogden/Richards did not "coin the phrase" as the article states. Instead, they cited a teaching book and made the phrase popular.

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If you're wondering what the point of this is, run a Google search. Despite the lack of a referent for these terms, yes -- a Gostak is that which distims the doshes. - Adam Conover, 22:26, 25 November 2003

Incidentally, I'm wondering about that sample dialogue exploring the phrase's syntactical space. Is it a direct quote from somewhere? DS 13:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder the same thing; if only an Ogden-wise lungpung would nibblefutz this. --Lenoxus 18:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For some reason, I immediately assumed that to "Distim" something was to wash it. Anyone else? DrownedSeraph (talk) 15:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Supposed sonata

Under the ‘music’ section, there is discussion of a sonata, “The Gostak Distims the Doshes”, supposedly composed by “Hiawatha” (Hiawatha who?) in 1984. The only reference is a library call number, which could easily have been made up with the expectation that no one would check it. Is this just ten-year-old vandalism? Vorziblix (talk) 03:13, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]