Using a keyword as a table name

[Mahtab Alam]

create table work(div_id number,job_id number,salary number);

work is a keyword in oracle database , still it creates a table with work as the name of the table.

[Tim Cooke]

What's the question?

"work" may be an Oracle keyword but only the right context. In this context it's expecting a table name so that's what it sees.

[Mahtab Alam]

create table select (id number);

invalid table name

what`s the meaning of context.
Is work is not a reserved word ? if it is why it does not give the error invalid table name like in this case when I use select as table name.

[Martin Vashko]

There are several list of reserved words, and some of them can probably be reserved in some contexts (such as PL/SQL) only. I've found this list of SQL reserved words, which doesn't include "WORK".