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[victor steinbok]

Thanks, Joel. There are not enough underappreciated four-letter words to
express how grateful I am for that observation. But they sound better in
Russian, where they are three-letter words. Actually, this is not the first
three-letter word I've commented on. There was at least one other--fob.

VS-)

PS: Sheesh! Can't even crack a lame joke without someone trying to upstage
you ... anymore...

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> At 8/1/2011 10:02 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
> >This is likely the shortest and the most common word that *I* have found
> to
> >have an insufficient coverage in the OED.
>
> Congratulations, Victor!  Previously, the record for the shortest and
> most common words having insufficient coverage have been the four-letter
> words.
>
> JSB
>

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