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Why do Irish people call a pencil sharpener a pairer?

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Why do Irish people call a pencil sharpener a pairer?

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  1. It would be a parer (like a paring knife), because it pares the bits of wood away from the pencil lead.


  2. maybe because they mean "parer," like an apple parer.

  3. I didn't know they did, but I assume that they would call it a parer because it pares the wood away from the lead.
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