Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

C. 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. Only cow-y things. I guess you could count gnus, but I for one
wouldn't include yaks or wildebeests or much else. Cattle are essentially
those species that are domestic cows - or look a lot like them.

BB

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