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leonardgoran
July 22nd, 2005, 03:38 PM
--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Bill Hirst" <billhirst@c...> wrote:

>guttrotetany...before 1:00 am Sunday (Eastern Time<

Bill, I gotta go with the opera one!

Si for me it's

3. A spasm in the throat causing stutter.

21. A technique among opera singers of lowering the larynx
so as to produce the "singers' formant" [L. _guttus_ throat
+ _tetanus_ stretched, fm Gk _tetanos_, fm _teinein_ to
stretch]. Regards, Len