To "ire"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Tue Nov 28 20:12:26 UTC 2006


Fox News Channel has just referred to the Pope's September speech "which ired many Muslims."

  OED offers just one cite, from ca 1420.  Pretty prescient, if you ask me.

  JL


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