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I've got Volume IX of the OED sitting on my lap as I write this.
Yes, "materteral - adj - characteristic of an aunt" is in here.
From Latin matertera, maternal aunt.
In the same entry it lists "materterine -adj" as meaning the same thing..
Now I suggest we start a new discussion about the phrase "dollars to donuts/doughnuts". (I'd never heard that one before.)
pieman
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pieman 05/01/2000 2:12 PM ![]()
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paulb 05/16/2000 12:16 PM ![]()
Now there's a redundancy...?
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paulb 05/17/2000 11:54 AM
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