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From: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: birds growing new feathers
Summary: regional variant spellings, bad poetry
Keywords: birds, new feathers
Message-ID: <3421@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 89 00:00:17 GMT
References: <8910291210.aa15790@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU> <2494@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <1989Oct31.173750.12436@newcastle.ac.uk>
Reply-To: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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J.M. Spencer (jms@turing.newcastle.ac.uk) writes:
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| The verb is "moult" hence "moulting", the period during
| which it occurs is also called "the moult".
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Spelled ``molt'' in the USA.  And now, a poem on this
subject by Ogden Nash.

  Birds of a feather
  Flock together
  And when they're molting
  They're pretty revolting.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
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``The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.''
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