Re: Flesh Eating Names
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 13, 2008, 19:01 |
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On an only-vaguely-related note, what's the sex-neutral term in
> English for a "bull"/"cow"/bovine thingy? I read somewhere once that
> "ox" used to fill that role before being co-opted to refer to a
> different subcategory of the same species. What's the singular of
> "cattle"?
Nothing convenient, as far as I know. Maybe "head of cattle".
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Jim Henry
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