  Melting/freezing are canonical examples of discontinuous phase transitions,
for which no pretransitional effects in the liquid phase are expected.For the
solid phase, weak premelting effects are evidenced. This report shows
long-range, critical-like, pretransitional effect in liquid thymol detected in
Electrooptic Kerr effect (EKE) studies. Notable is the negative sign of EKE
pretransitional anomaly. Studies are supplemented by high-resolution by
dielectric constant temperature-related scan, which revealed a weak premelting
effect in the solid phase. Both EKE and dielectric constant show a 'crossover'
change ca. 10K above the melting temperature. It can be recognized as the
hallmark of the challenging Liquid-Liquid transition phenomenon .
