mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (10/13/84)
The Oxford English Dictionary (in the 2-volume micro-print form of 8000+
pages) {contains/does not contain} the word "parecbasis" (and the
adjectival form "parecbatical"). The paradox, if such it can be called,
is that in the section "Spurious words" there are three words (parechasis
and two others) that are considered to be errors made when the writer
means "parecbasis". "Parecbasis" is (in that place) defined as a deviation
in rhetoric from the main point -- Aha, Usenet slogan "Parecbatical and
to the point". Now we look in the main body of the dictionary, and we
find that "parecbasis" is not a word!
Are there any other words that the OED declares specifically to be proper
English and then declines to admit?
--
Martin Taylor
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