[Ads-l] auroch

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Supersingular of singular "aurochs" - the "wild supercow of Europe."


"Octopi" all over again. And why are they calling it a "cow" and not an
"ox," anyway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs#Etymology
-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org