YouTube caption

[Jonathan Lighter]

In my middlebrow experience, most names for young birds 'n beasts other
than pup, puppy, kitten, and cub, are now mostly literary. (Some of the,
like "cygnet," may have always been.)

Even "duckling" is on the way out, "baby duck" being preferred.

JL


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> "An example of a colt is a _baby horse_."
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> Ey wa-la.
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> Youneverknow.
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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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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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