[OT] Re: Extract Attachment from Mail

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 20 20:16:20 UTC 2007


Mark Knoop wrote:
> At 18:42 on 19 Feb 2007, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>>Oxford English Dictionary (which I would think was fairly
>>>definitive) notes the use of sheeps.
>>>
>>
>>Not in my copy - though of course few of us, if any, would have the
>>full OED. Would you like to post the entire entry?
> 
> 
> I subscribe to the website version (http://dictionary.oed.com/). The
> plural is mentioned after definition 1a. This is the basic entry, I've
> not included the various spellings, etymology or quotations...
> 
> sheep, n.
> 

[snip]

>     pl. with -s.
> 
>     b. With qualifying word denoting the species as African,
> broad-tailed, Rocky Mountain, wild (see ARGALI, MOUFFLON, MUSMON). Also
> applied to other genera, as {dag}Indian or Peruvian sheep, the llama or
> vicuña; mountain sheep, the ibex.

Yep, this is the way I've heard "sheeps" used in South Texas.

[snip]

Mike
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