Facebook: "A _periotic_ table"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> this despite the fact the the table posted bears the caption ,"… _Periodic_ …"
>
neurotic, psychotic, sclerotic, hypnotic, periotic

Why not(ic)?  The only trick is figuring out how to treat the dread affliction of periosis--with antibiosis, perhaps.

LH

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