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Re: vapor versus gas ( cow = beef)



English basically lacks a non gender specific word
for a single member of the bovine species, but there is a
plural which is "cattle"


I immediately thought of kine, which is certainly English.

But then my little dictionary says it was plural for cow.

I suspect it was really non gender specific even so.





Clarence Bennett
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309
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