caninality, felinality, murality

[Bill Palmer]

So do swine have "porcinality"

Bill Palmer

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> Not the motto of the French Revolution.
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> This evening, on a PBS show about cats and dogs, a Humane Society
> volunteer
> explained that they try to determine a dog's "caninality" before they
> match
> it with an owner.
>
> That means "personality," but for dogs.  I didn't hear "felinality," but
> Google tells me it exists.
>
> No "murality," AFAICT, for mice, but thousands of Raw Googlits in the
> sense
> of "murals."
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> JL
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