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On Mon, 8 June 2015, at 2:25 pm, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> So I just ran across this word "emeried" and I can only find emory. |
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> I think "emeried" is obscure in both meaning and usage. |
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My 1970's copy of the 24-volume Oxford English Dictionary says that emery as a verb is to rub with emery (e.g. emery paper, I guess). |
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So I guess an example sentence would be "before the panel can be repainted, it must be emeried until all traces of the paint have been removed." |
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I agree this is obscure - I had to look it up, and my Mac's Dictionary.app doesn't contain it, either. |
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Are you trying to fix the dictionary? I have often felt Unix /usr/share/dict contains many words so obscure (or obsolete) as to be useless, but it seems to me this not only needs to be addressed upstream, but it's also pretty much a fulltime job for someone. |
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Stroller. |
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