thy thigh etc.

Jim Rader jrader at Merriam-Webster.com
Mon Jun 11 13:17:47 UTC 2001


Well, it's in the 6th ed. of the _Concise Oxford_ (1982), and in
somewhat older editions of comparable one-volume dictionaries by
Collins and Chambers.  I'm not sure the editors have seen fit to
include it in more recent UK dictionaries.

Jim Rader

> <kinkajou>

> I'm pleased, but not surprised, that it's in American dictionaries, since
> it's an American animal.  Is it still in the concise English ones, I wonder?
> because that's what my point was.

> Peter



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