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Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 19:03
Steg Belsky wrote:
> Isn't the singular of cattle "cow/bull"?
Cattle is a mass noun. The plural of those words are "cows" and "bulls". Cattle are counted as "X head of cattle" instead of "X cattle" or "cattles"
> "minwen jayeh? mimissrayim." > "fen rayikh? liyerushalayim." > "ishu zawatak? massah umaror."
What's this? It doesn't look like R. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor