"Unring" Not in OED
    Laurence Horn 
    laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
       
    Tue Nov 27 01:43:47 UTC 2007
    
    
  
At 7:35 PM -0500 11/26/07, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>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
>
Let's just hope all those lawyers don't instigate a class-action suit...
LH
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