deixis

Michael Quinion wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Mon Aug 17 10:34:09 UTC 2009


> This word is not in the OED.

It's in the online version marked as being from the Second Edition, and so
ought to be on the CD, too. The pronunciation is given there similarly as
/'daIksIs/.


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