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   Dorothy J Heydt to mdhangton@gmail.com   
   Re: Would you use these words in a ms.?   
   11 May 15 06:33:29   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   William Vetter   wrote:   
   >aileuromorphic   
   >   
   >vibrissae   
   >   
   >metapodia   
   >   
   >calcaneus   
      
   Yes, if they were the right words for the occasion.   
      
   I recently commented elsethead on David Brin's using words like   
   bromopnean and atrichic, for which he probably could have used   
   "stinky-breathed" and "hairless," at the cost of making the   
   prose a little less distinctive.   
      
   Is someone writing about the vibrissae of an aileuromorph?   
   Please send a link, if so.   
      
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