"Unring" Not in OED

[Michael Quinion]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> Perhaps something like 'of or relating to the work of a
> paremiologist', the last word being one that is in your OED.

It may be appropriate, in view of comments about the OED's rules for
including words, to wonder about the absence of "paremiological" (or
"paroemiological") from the recent revision of the letter "P". It's easy
to find examples in scholarly books and papers. Since "paroemiology" is
there, it would be little effort, surely, to add the adjective? This
thread alone shows it would be useful.


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