Idiom question
A. Vine
avine at ENG.SUN.COM
Tue Jan 25 02:54:07 UTC 2000
Laurence Horn wrote:
> rooster/hen). But the case of horses appears to be a counterexample:
> filly is [+fem], colt usually [+male]. I wouldn't be surprised to find
> that some people take colts to include fillies, though of course never vice
> versa. (I'm from New York City, so I don't have any valid intuitions
> here--they're all just horses to me, big'uns and little'uns.)
>
Well, there is "foal".
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