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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
friable (adj.)
 
 
is a homophone of the nonce word fryable (“capable of being fried”), but the Standard adjective friable (from the Latin friare, “crumble”) has nothing to do with cooking: friable soils are “crumbly, easily pulverized soils.”  1
 
 
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