Actually, I meant by physical distance, since mom's within an hour's drive,
one brother is at least a day's drive and the other is 3 hard days drive
away.  Although, I can see I used a poor example.

- Pam

------------ Previous Message from  Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]>  on
02/10/2000 12:42:35 PM ----------
In a message dated 2/8/2000 4:55:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

<< Here's a try at a sentence:  I have a propinquity to me mother, but not
to
 my brothers. >>

Dear Popeye (or Andy Capp),

That works for the biological relationship sense, but was I was trying to
figure out was how to use "propinquity" to connote physical proximity.
I.e.,
is something "in propinquity?"  One doesn't say that a thing is
propinquitous, although "propinquitous" seems more useful than
"propinquity."

What say our Sharpshooting Shaman the Pirate and others considered the
literary elite among Pinheads?

Ralph