On 3-Jul-09, at 8:57 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
The OED defines the mouth as:"The orifice in the head of a human or other vertebrate through which vocalsounds are emitted." (no mention of its use as a eating organ).
Which edition are you using? Mine has it as the first entry:"Mouth ... I 1 The external orifice in an animal body which serves for the ingestion of food, together with the cavity to which this leads ..."
- from THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: COMPLETE TEXT REPRODUCED MICROGRAPHICALLY, vol. 1, p. 1865 (Oxford University Press, 1971).
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