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[George Thompson]

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

LH: "except on menus, oddly"

I dare say restaurateurs expect consumer resistance to eating "baby"
animals -- hence "veal" instead of "baby cow".

GAT


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> >> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject:      Re: YouTube caption
> >>
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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:
> >>
> >> "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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> >>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >>> Subject:      Re: YouTube caption
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >>>
> >>> On Aug 17, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "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
> >>>
> >>> LH
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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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