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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: materteral #1818 05/15/00 05:56 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 20 P pieman OP stranger OP pieman stranger P Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 20 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted avuncular pieman 05/01/00 02:12 PM Re: avuncular tsuwm 05/01/00 02:33 PM Re: avuncular pieman 05/14/00 04:14 AM Re: avuncular David108 05/14/00 06:43 PM Re: avuncular tsuwm 05/14/00 06:48 PM Re: materteral paulb 05/15/00 11:25 AM Re: materteral pieman 05/15/00 05:56 PM Re: materteral tsuwm 05/15/00 06:12 PM Re: materteral paulb 05/16/00 12:16 PM Now there's a redundancy...? shanks 05/16/00 01:14 PM Re: Now there's a redundancy...? paulb 05/17/00 11:54 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,331 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 802 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,542 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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