"Unring" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred Fred.Shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Nov 27 00:35:58 UTC 2007


The word "unring," found principally in the saying "You can't unring a bell," is not in OED.  There are 49,600 Google hits for "unring."

Fred Shapiro

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