Re: Flesh Eating Names
| From: | Peter Collier <petecollier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 13, 2008, 20:32 |
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 7:42 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: Flesh Eating Names
> 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"?
Well, for me at least, the non-specific term would be "cow" (even to the
extent of having said before now something as strange as "a male cow is
called a bull".)
Cattle has no singular form.
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