YouTube caption

[Wilson Gray]

The "baby horse" is really young. But ut appears to be nale and mature for
kits apparent ahem given tha it attempts to mount a mare. But my question
is rendered nugatory by definitions like the following, from an on-line
dictionary:

"An example of a colt is a _baby horse_."

Ey wa-la.

Youneverknow.


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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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