"_Auroch_, aurochs"?!

[Wilson Gray]

According to the article below, in *English* English, no less,
_aurochs_ is now a plural. This shift may not be news to most others,
but, to me ... <sob!> I'm sorry. I can't go on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7011035/Giant-cattle-to-be-bred-back-from-extinction.html


Heard on The Judges:

Early-twenty-ish black male speaker:

"Point-blank!" = Precisely!

Late-twenty-ish black male speaker uses, of a woman, _turnout_, to
mean "outrageous flirt." He also, speaking of the same woman,
sneeringly used "her _little_ boody" as part of his derisive
description.


-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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