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Plural of cow isn't kine ... anymore

#1323

$ ./script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.0)

"cow".pluralize => "kine"

from: http://dictionary.reference.com/... cow –noun, plural cows, (Archaic) kine.

Note that kine is now archaic. It's no more correct to use 'kine' than it is to use "thou" for "you" "thyne" for "yours" and "art" for "are".

Or we can have all of rails be in Old English a la Beowulf style :P http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/b...

Reported by eydaimon · November 4th, 2008 @ 06:34 AM

State: wontfix
Milestone: 2.x
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none

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  1. eydaimon
    eydaimon

    suggest adding die => dice, and catus => cacti etc since I'm at it.

    November 4th, 2008 @ 07:21 AM

  2. DHH
    DHH
    • State changed from new to wontfix

    Since the introduction of config/initializers/inflections.rb, we've pretty much frozen changes to the pluralizer. Someone who right now had a kine table would get screwed by this change. Think of all the ranchers ;)

    November 14th, 2008 @ 10:57 AM

  3. eydaimon