"pavane" > wrote in message
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> "Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
> . com...
> >
> > I wonder who bones the oil-packed ones? What a job! By the way, my
> > complements to you for using the correct "boned" and not the too common
> and
> > ignorant "deboned."
> >
>
> Quibble but disagree -- strictly on the basis of precision, the transitive
> verb "deboned" has but one meaning, whereas the word "boned" has
> numerous of them, and only one of them means the removal of bones
> in meats or fish. In this sense most contemporary dictionaries accord
> them equal definition in opposite senses, such as we have with the
> infamous "flammable" and "inflammable."
>
> Not that you in any way committed a boner, Peter...the OED does not
> recognize "debone."
>

Nor does my spell-checker, apparently.

pavane