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<font size=3>At 10:31 AM 7/29/2004, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:<br>
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Poster: Jesse Sheidlower
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Subject: Re: Unthaw<br>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:27:49AM -0400, Page Stephens wrote:<br>
> For years I have used the word "unthaw" to describe what
you do when you<br>
> thaw frozen food out, and for years my wife has laughed at me since
it makes<br>
> no sense.<br><br>
OED has an entry for this, helpfully defined as "To thaw",
with<br>
cites from 1598 (admittedly labelled "Now dial."). We have
a<br>
decent number of recent examples too. Reasonable amount of<br>
relevant evidence on Google.<br><br>
JTS</blockquote>It does bring to mind, however, the 'stirred eggs' recipe
from Buwei Yang Chao's cookbook (the recipe written by Yuen-Ren Chao,
which, among other things mentions one of my teachers, Fang-Kuei
Li). I think it's recently been mentioned on this list. In
any case, Chao, in beginning the recipe, starts by saying<br><br>
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shell or unshell the eggs...<br><br>
(I dont' have my copy here at my office). Incidentally, Eudora's
spellcheck doesn't like 'unshell'.<br><br>
Geoff</font></body>
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