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Today's episode is Equestrian's Calvaries and Hippos, horse-related words.

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food for thought, or of the limited-run spin-off podcast called Anomology, which you can still get

wherever you listen to podcasts, you know I'm very interested in the animal-related words and

expressions we use every day in the English language, and you would know that I call those

animal-related words and expressions. Anomologies, you would also know if you've listened that we have

already talked about horse expressions. The obvious and the obscure is the name of that episode.

Today we're going to delve back into horse-related animal-ologies, but this time we're going to focus

on horse-related words rather than expressions, and because horses factor so significantly into our

English lexicon, this episode is only part one of two, so let's get started and let's start with

the word horse itself. The word horse is an old English word that dates back to the 800s,

goes back a long way. Its pronunciation has really remained the same, though it's spelling has

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