I run into this problem a lot while reading Stephen King. I've read his work pretty extensively, and in nearly every book I've read he either alludes to something that doesn't exist, uses a word weirdly, or says something in general that doesn't quite make sense. I then Google it, and usually turn up so zilcho. Case in point, I just finished Rose Madder (which was kind of terrible) and I remember Norman Daniels talking to a dim witted cashier that couldn't speak properly and I couldn't decode it for my life and Google was also no help. In the same book, he refers to a toga as a zat which also doesn't exist.