"the religious rite"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Oct 27 13:30:06 UTC 2006


On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:27:52AM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> We've had "mentees" around here for at least ten years, with the stress on "tee."

We've discussed this a few times before, I think; OED has
this to 1965.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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