... ovenable

Barnhart ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Sun Mar 3 08:59:09 UTC 2002


Bapopik at AOL.COM,Net writes:
>Haden ends the column with a suggestion to add "ovenable" to the
>dictionary:

Ovenable first appeared in The Dictionary Companion (Vol. 5.3-4, c.
1989, p 146) where the e.q. [earliest quote] is 1977.  In light of
microwavable (DC 5.2, c. 1988, p 68), I suspect that it might be a good
idea to include ovenable in larger dictionaries.  See AHD4 (c. 2000).

Regards,
David

Barnhart at highlands.com



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