[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Afterthought on Buck

[KEN ADAMS]

Just to add to the confusion the Afrikaans word Bok translates in English as Goat Perhaps we would be better keeping the word Stag to refer strictly to deer and Bok to Antelope.
KEN




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From: KEN ADAMS <kenadams705 at btinternet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009 2:30:02 PM
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The term Buck derives from the Afrikaans, post Dutch, word Bok. It is commonly used in Africa today to refer to many ( especially male)  Antelope whch although Ungulates are in a taxonomically different group to deer. It may be that it is used in the United states today  because of the Dutch ancestry and/or because of the presnce in the United States of a slightly displaced (zoologically) deer called the antelope.
KEN

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