michigoose and michigas

[storkrn]

At 3:04 PM -0400 7/13/00, Frank Abate wrote:
Michigander is the fem. form.  The masc. is Michigoose.

vice versa, rather.  "goose" is one of the relatively rare birds and beasts
in which the female is the unmarked.

Mark Mandel replied:

ISTM* that this set consists of those species (word used loosely) whose
female produces either eggs or milk that are economically useful:
cow
chicken
goose
duck

Others?
* Sorry: It Seems To Me.
Mark A. Mandel : Dragon Systems, a Lernout & Hauspie company
Mark_Mandel at dragonsys.com : Sr. Linguist & Mgr. of Acoustic Data
320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com
(speaking for myself)

Mark Mandel, have you ever heard of yak milk, camel milk, goat milk, emu
eggs, ostrich eggs, etc. One nation's economically useful species is not
necessarily another's.

Sharyn Hay, RNC, MSN
storkrn at msn.com