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Dear etaoin. Thanks for posting the pictures. The poor humfallen critter would really make the Sphinx smile.
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Dear et'...
Sorry I've been so long getting bactrian here, but thanks very much for posting the photographs--and for trimming them a bit to get more directly to the camels themselves! I think those photographs do show well how trigular the still-standing humps of the one bactrian are, and the fallen humps on the other are very easy to see, also. They do look pitiful, don't they, especially since they were shedding their winter coats!
Best regards, Wordwind
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you're welcome. I wonder if he can flip them from side to side, or if he gets frustrated having them hang like that... "ooh, I got an itch!"...
trigular hafta look this one up...
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Don't waste your time. It was my fingers moving too fast over the keyboard. I do this kind of thing all the time on AWAD, which is really inexcusable. I should edit more carefully.
But trigular is a very nice word, even though I don't think it exists. It seems to cover anything that has to do with 3. Then we could have bigular. Marriages. Generally bigular. And we could have tetrigular. And so on.
Now back to the bactrian: It has bigular humps.
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It has bigular humpsand a bit sagular... ![](/board/images/icons/smile.gif)
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Bigular? Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin! "English gular Behind the chin and between the sides of the lower jaw.
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and here's a nonce usage from Fraser's Magazine; guess what was meant:
The second.. was.. the founder of a gular academy, distinguishing himself by his treatise de opsoniis et condimentis.
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have we gone from camels to a food thread?
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When I was very small, adults used to hold a buttercup under a child's chin. A gular golden glow meant a fondness for butter.
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a gular academy
regular? guitar? hey, I think you may have the germ of a new game ;)
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