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Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

From:dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 18:29
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:

> Well, the way I've always seen it is that cattle and furniture are > colective, reather than plural nouns, translated into Spanish as _ganado_ > and _mobiliario_... by the way, can cattle be used of sheep?
Nope. Although I always thought "cattle" came from the same root as "chattle," meaning "property." The plural of "cow" is "cows." --Patrick