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Dear Emilio,
Droopy eyelids - as in ennui.
Harry
At 04:00 PM 10/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>"Harry G. Lee" wrote:
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>> Dear Tom and ptotic stragglers,
>>
>> I think there was no time for commingling of St. Lawrence and Hudson R.
>> waters until 1825 (possibly a lot later) based on my reading of:
>> <http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/whitford/1906/chapter6.htm>.
>
>CUT!!!---------
>
>Hello!
>
>Hi Dr. Lee,
>
>I am always in awe of your vocabulary and mastery of expression!!
>
>PTOTIC ??? Wheew!!
>
>As defined (for the stragglers ?);
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>pto·sis
> n., pl. pto·ses
>
> Abnormal lowering or drooping of an organ or a part, especially a
>drooping
>of the upper eyelid caused
> by muscle weakness or paralysis.
>
> [Greek ptsis, fall, from piptein, to fall; see pet- in Indo-European Roots.]
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> ptotic (-tk) adj.
>
>So I suppose you mean a straggler with some sort of "drooping" condition???
>Or is
>it
>shell collector stragglers that somehow "droop" within their specialty???
>
>Later,
>
>Emilio Jorge Power
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