"Unring" Not in OED

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Nov 27 18:50:05 UTC 2007


At 11/27/2007 01:23 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > I always appreciate a new WOTD, but what does "paremiological"
> > mean?  It, like "unring", is not in my OED.
>
>Perhaps something like 'of or relating to the work of a
>paremiologist', the last word being one that is in your OED.

Not in mine -- but I'm a poor sufferer, at home, with only the OED2
CD-ROM, now out of date thru PU something.

Joel

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