On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 6:28:31 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:47:17 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> >Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >> On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 3:18:27 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 10:09:21 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > In the US what's sold as oxtail is actually cow tail.
> >> >
> >> > I know. My dad told me that when I was a kid. When was the last
> >> > time you saw oxen in the United States? I guess they have some in
> >> > Texas. Perhaps there are some where Paul Bunyan lives. I just know
> >> > that one of ya'alls going to be insisting oxen are all over the
> >> > place in America. It's what yoose guys do.
> >>
> >> An ox is an adult male bovine trained as a draft animal. They often
> >> are castrated. (Thank you, Wikipedia.)
> >>
> >> Given the lack of demand for wagon or plow pulling, it's not
> >> surprising we have few oxen.
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamilton
> >
> >If you keep to the simple definition, it's basically a beef bull or cow
> >that's been trained to work.
>
> I guess the "beef bull" is the equivalent of the "pork pig" and the
> "mutton sheep".

There are bull elephants. It would be inappropriate to refer to them
as oxen.

Cindy Hamilton