Re: CHAT: mammals and mammaries

John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > BTW, I wouldn't normally use the word "breast" when refering to
>(non-human)
> > animals' anatomy, tho' this may be Swedish influence. What does the
>natives
> > say?
>
>Ironically, it is used of the edible chest musculature of birds, though
>they
>are not mammals.  A chicken, for example, contains (considered as a food)
>legs, wings, and breast meat.
We do the same in Swedish (and to further complicate matters, the same word
can also mean "chest" as a human body-part), but we weren't talking about
"breast" in this sense, but in the milk-related sense.

                                                        Andreas

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