Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Oak Titmouse
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:46:34 -0600
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tit    [tit] ,
?noun
1.
a titmouse.
2.
any of various other small birds.
3.
Archaic. a girl or young woman; hussy.
4.
Archaic. a small or poor horse; nag.
Origin:
1540?50; repr. ME tite- (in titemose titmouse ); c. Norw titetitmouse;  
akin to ON tittr tack, pin.
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On 26-Apr-09, at 4:28 PM, Marc Dufour wrote:

> From: "Doug Herr"
>
>
>> The Oak Titmouse is a member of family Paridae which inludes  
>> Chickadees and Tits (where the name came from I won't try to guess)
Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] IMG: Oak Titmouse)
 In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] IMG: Oak Titmouse)
Message from foto at marcdufour.net (Marc Dufour) ([Leica] IMG: Oak Titmouse)