Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender
From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 18:29 |
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:
>...> Well, the way I've always seen it is that cattle and furniture are
> colective, reather than plural nouns, translated into Spanish as _ganado_
> and _mobiliario_... by the way, can cattle be used of sheep?
Nope.
Although I always thought "cattle" came from the same root as "chattle,"
meaning "property." The plural of "cow" is "cows."
--Patrick