Related, when people comment that I “shaved” my donkeys or horses… Argh!!
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How 'bout a “Hot Water Heater”?
If the water’s hot, why would you need to heat it?
So nobody wants to comment on “reins” vs “rein”? Guess I’ll stick with the singular then; it feels better on the tongue. And there really is only the one piece . . . “A one-piece Yacht-rope rein.”
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Let’s err on the side of caution, not ‘air’, shall we? I mean, since we’re going to all this trouble!
Yes, the apostrophes! They’re everywhere now!
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There is the term “rein lame”. I think you can use either😀.
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This is something we say all the time.
My reins are two pieces, buckled together.
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Around here, we have filly colts.
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Yeah; I gots some of them too; call 'em “English Reins”. “Reins”. The buckle helps you find the mid-point; I’m not at all sure what it’s intended function might be. Some folks I ride with use long western reins, and knot the ends together. Still “Reins”.
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Just think about the English language as the only western language that has spelling bees.
Why would that be?
For me, I am also hard of hearing, is two languages, one the spoken one, another the written one, that correspond to each other lightly.
Other languages don’t have spelling bees because you practically pronounce every letter in a word, bar very specific examples easy to learn.
English for me is all exceptions, can’t go by what you hear to spell alone, need context and many examples over a lifetime to get it right, why so many struggle with English.
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But if it is a Connemara it is always a “pony”, even if it is over 14h 2"
And an Icelandic is always a horse.
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Even if it is one continuous piece, you still have a “left rein” and a “right rein” while you are riding, so I would still say “reins”.
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does not make any difference since most people can not or will not count
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But they have draught (or draft if you prefer that spelling) origins. They ploughed (plowed if you prefer that spelling) fields and they drew merchants’ carts and coaches as well as being ridden to hounds.
Draft and draught are merely and mostly alternate spellings of the exact same word. One exception would be a draft of a written thing is always draft with an f on both sides of the pond.
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Not really grammar, but just wrong: yesterday I was doing the Sunday crossword and one of the clues was “A dappled horse.”
It was not grey, it was not bay, or any other color on which I have witnessed dapples. I finally solved with the other letters. It was roan.
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Oh yes, this! So much this! So many people seem to go by the rule “if there’s an ‘s’ involved, add an apostrophe.” No thought whatsoever as to whether it is plural or possessive or both. Thinking of our now retired school district superintendent who improperly used apostrophes on his family’s holiday card.
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lmao not fair!
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A former school board employee?! Egregious. Commercial signs that make the mistake really get my goat.
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Haven’t seen this yet but very relevant, often on this very BB…
Phase vs. faze.
As in “nothing PHASES this horse.” NO!
“Nothing FAZES this horse.” YES!
Also not necessarily horse related but “wallah” (in the context of “there it is!” at least) is NOT A WORD. It’s French, and it’s “voila,” or “voilà” if you want to get particular about it! Heck, I’d even accept viola, at least an attempt was made 
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen JC papers for a dappled gray, but aren’t they identified as roan?
Aren’t grey and roan lumped together into one category?
I was watching a TV game show, Cash Cab I think was it’s name, and the contestant had to get the answer with this clue: a southwestern breed, this horse has a creamy mane and tail.
Just, gah!
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