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[Wilson Gray]

> I remember accepting both of those terms

Sigh! Since rolling back language-change is a Sisyphean task, I've been
known to choke down even lion and tiger "kittens." To borrow a Canadian
friend's catch-phrase, "What the hell, eh?"

There's a kind of fox called a "kit fox," "the smallest and rarest member
of the dog family." Don't know how it got its name, though.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember accepting both of those terms for immature wolves as OK. "Cubs"
> first, then I encountered wolf "pups" and thought "Sure, why not? They're
> close kin to dogs."
>
> IIRC, I've seen similar for foxes: "cubs", "pups", and maybe also "kits" as
> in "kitten" or "kitty-cat" (such as her who is sleeping next to this laptop
> and will probably disconnect the power cord in one twitch or another).
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Bear cubs and wolf _pups_ in danger"
> >
> > Anybody else remember when wolves had cubs, too, and not "pups"? As in
> the
> > old "WeBeLoS" of the Cub Scouts?
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> >
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