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   Dorothy J Heydt to mdhangton@gmail.com   
   Re: Would you use these words in a ms.?   
   12 May 15 20:20:28   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   William Vetter   wrote:   
   >Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 11 May 2015 14:32:22 -0400, William Vetter   
   >>  wrote   
   >> in in   
   >> rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> Aileuromorphic is not in the dictionary (if you want to   
   >>> spell it like ailourophobia, it won't be in there   
   >>> either).   
   >>   
   >> Correction: like , the normal headword   
   >> spelling, or occasionally the Latinized spelling   
   >> ; the spelling  is extremely   
   >> rare.   
   >>   
   >> Its meaning, however, is obvious: ‘cat-shaped’.   
   >   
   >Here is a word not in any dictionary, that will be impossible to derive   
   >meaning from roots....   
   >   
   >pseudaelurine   
      
   A teen-aged girl that wears cat ears and other cattish makeup to   
   convenitons?   
      
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