Really?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:36 PM -0400 8/16/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>>From a letter to the editor of InfoWorld:
>
>"'A _cub_ version of [the new MacOSX  4.5] Leopard is on the loose ...'
>It took me a while to figure out what this meant, because leopards
>have _kittens_, not cubs!"
>
>Can this be true? As far as I'm aware, only housecats have kittens.
>But language tends to change over time.
>
>-Wilson

Well, tiger cubs are still leading tiger kittens 316,000 to 534, and
for leopards it's much closer:
36,600 to 3,270.  Lord knows why, especially since there really *are*
tiger kittens (who grow up to be tiger cats, as opposed to tigers).
Luckily our two kittens settled for turning into housecats and not
tigers or leopards (although one is a bit overweight).

Anyway, I thought 10.4 was Tiger (following Jaguar and Panther), and
it's the new OS 10.5 that will be Leopard.  I fear Mac will be
running out of felines soon, since no doubt they're saving Lion for
the ne plus ultra.

LH

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