There is a great podcast called Sold a Story that goes into the debate about teaching reading strategies. I teach high school math and fear some of the same has been happening with math education…
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Straight off the Jockey Club website. Drives me nuts. There’s only one line of TBs with roan and they’re in NZ or Australia.
Reminds me of lil. My lil horse blah blah blah. It’s not going to kill you to type a few extra letters. Honestly…
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If they’re spotted, they’re pintos, no matter the breed. This isn’t that hard to understand.
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If a horse is bay, it’s bay, no matter the breed. If a horse is spotted (other than Appy or Knabstrupper), it’s pinto, no matter the breed. But since people are determined that pinto-colored Paints are not pintos, I will bow out of this conversation. There’s no point in it.
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Since we are talking about words, both “pinto” and “paint” refer to spotted horses. “Pinto” derives from Spanish, and was most commonly used in the American southwest. “Paint” is English, and is more commonly used in the “English” disciplines. (In England, I think that Piebald and Skewbald are more commonly used.)
Anyway, they both refer to the horse’s color.
The fact that someone has, in the recent past, established a breed registry, APHA, based on the word “Paint” does not stop “paint” being an appropriate description for any spotted horse.
Just as the fact that there is Palomino breed registry does not change the fact that horses of almost any breed can be, and should be, called palomino.
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I didn’t read all the responses but Phase vs. Faze:
My young horse is going through a Phase where nothing Fazes her.
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Li’l. 
Your kidding yourself if you think there are “[some] poor spellers” wandering around out there. They are legion. Same with the ones who can’t do math in their heads. Or those who print their signature because they haven’t learned cursive writing. There are hoards of them. Almost all of them are hunched over a “smart phone.” Imagine if they could speel or do multiplication or sign their college application. They probably could get by with a dumb phone. I have a dumb phone, AKA a flip phone. I like it because people have low expectations beyond texting me. If they have higher expectations they have to call the land line.
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Most don’t bother with the apostrophe that I’ve seen lately.
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Oops!
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That one bothers me a lot, too.
Rebecca
Horse colors:
Black, White, Grey, Brown, Red, or a combination thereof.
I too was told, by my long-time vet, that a Paint horse is, by definition a “Pinto”, but a Pinto is not necessarily a “Paint”. He went on with some additional discussion, but it slid on by w/o really sinking in. A “Pinto” mare I used to have in my care was White with Black markings. An Elderly Paint I used to have (and a very sweet boy he was, too; RIP Banjo.) was White and Red (“Liver”).
My young “Kentucky Spotted Mountain Horse” (That’s what his registration says. Really.) is White and Red. (A very pale red; papers call it “Champagne”. What. Ever.) I named him El Rosado, (The Pink One) 'cause he has blue eyes, a very fair complexion, and his skin is Pink everywhere.
Someone told me “Cremello”. Someone told me not.
Phooey; he’s “Rosy” :-D.
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Champagne and Cremello are genetically different.
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I have a cat that I got the day Little Jimmy Dickens died.I named him Li’l Dickens but his call name is Dickens.
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My own child picked this up somewhere (definitely not from me). I am constantly interrupting his past tense stories about petting animals to correct him.
It was once mansplained to me that “there aren’t any pintos anymore. They’re PAINTS!!”
Also, a fellow boarder nearly tried to fight me when I wrote “aisle” when referring to that walkway between rows of stalls. She was screaming at me to correct it to “isle.”
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Huh. Maybe this is the resource the crossword answer was taken from. Does any other breed registry say this?
@SillyHorse She was correct in calling HER horse a pinto, who also happened to be a Paint horse. But not all Paint horses are pintos, so in that she was incorrect. A solid-colored Paint horse is not a pinto. This is the “squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares” argument.
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I believe I stated that in my comments. Perhaps it got past you.
Maybe you should stop now.
Off topic, but nauseated from the nauseating errors.
My mother drilled it into my head from an early age that if I felt sick, I was nauseated. And if I made her sick I was nauseous. Folks have said “I’m nauseous” so frequently it’s become the accepted jargon but it still rakes on my ears.
And I’m a little nauseated that for all my teen years I said I wanted to learn dress-age. Pre internet I had never heard the word spoken, and only read of it, and my early phonics lessons taught it was “age of dress” hence, “dress-age”.
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