Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[potioncat]

> Geoff:
> I think this may be one of those UK/US linguistic things. Locally, we 
> certainly talk about fawns and  I can't recall hearing buck used very 
much 
> at all.
>

Potioncat:
I think so too. The images and associations that come with "buck" are 
different than with "stag". Could be that the deer in the US are a 
different type than found in England---don't know. But if I'd read that 
James's Animagus form was a buck, I'd get a differnt feel about it than 
it being a stag.

A stag would be found on tapestries and in heraldry. A buck is from the 
American frontier and west. In the US buck was also used to describe 
young men. Is stag ever used that way in the UK?


But I wonder why the US uses the term buck at all? At the time we were 
building the country and naming animals, we were still English.