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Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
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Mon Aug 18 03:57:03 UTC 2014
And colt is gender-specific - not sure whether that was evident in the video.
On Aug 17, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> On Aug 17, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> "Funny _Baby Horse_"
>> =20
>> Is the word, "colt," now obsolete? What about "foal"?
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> Not obsolete, just not widely known in urban/suburban America (esp. =
> "foal", I'd wager). =20
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> LH
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