pawn off

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Sat Jun 23 00:30:54 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:14:39PM -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
> MWDEU says "The OED thinks it erroneous for _palm_, but it may in fact
> be a dialectal variant." Garner doesn't mention it, but Brians treats
> it as a straightforward error:

Just to make this explicit, OED2 (and OED1) did have an
"Erron."  label on this, but OED3 removed this label.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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