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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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