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[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 18, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> 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

except on menus, oddly

LH
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> 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
>> dictionary:
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>> "An example of a colt is a _baby horse_."
>> 
>> 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>
>> 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"?
>>> 
>>> 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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