milch cow

Dale Coye Dalecoye at AOL.COM
Sat Jan 6 21:39:56 UTC 2001


My father (b. 1917central NY) would use the word milch cow occasionally and
could give it either pronunciation /ts/ or affricate.  But it's very
old-fashioned, 'dairy cow' would be the more common term today.  In the old
days of course, people used to just have a single cow.   I'd find it hard to
imagine applying the term 'dairy cow' to one of these loners.

Dale Coye
The College of NJ



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