Re: Bit of trivia

Ah, "cattle" rather than "cows".  I think I had got my
snippet from one of Richard Lederer's books--he's an
expert on English quirks.

Clint


--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:28:32 -0800 Clint Jackson
> Baker
> <litrex1@...> writes:
> > I was reading what Christophe had said about
> irregular
> > plurals and I remembered that the "cow/kyne" pair
> is
> > unique in the history of English in that not a
> single
> > letter from the singular was carried over to the
> > plural.
> > Clint
> -
>
> I thought that "kine"/"kyne" was a collective, not a
> simple plural... at
> least that's the impression i got from its use in
> archaic-sounding
> English translations of Passover Haggadahs.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "mew, meep."

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