Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
pouring (Australia)
English answer:
pawing (the ground): homophonic spelling mistake
Added to glossary by
Gabrielle Leyden
Mar 21, 2012 10:00
12 yrs ago
English term
pouring
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Livestock / Animal Husbandry
Australian term
Things not to do if you want to avoid quarter cracks and remain on good terms with your farrier: "leave a horse POURING in the cross-ties bay"
Does the guy mean "with blood gushing out of a wound" or does pouring mean something else "down under". In the latter case, I need a British or American equivalent.
TIA!
Gabrielle
Does the guy mean "with blood gushing out of a wound" or does pouring mean something else "down under". In the latter case, I need a British or American equivalent.
TIA!
Gabrielle
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4 +3 | pawing (the ground): spelling mistake | Charles Davis |
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pawing (the ground): spelling mistake
I see Catherine has suggested this just as I was about to post. Everything points to this. Farriers are people who attend to horse's feet. A quarter crack is a crack in the hoof. "Cross tie" means securing the horse for attention. If it paws the ground (ie. runs its hoofs along the ground, probably because it is agitated and distressed at being cross-tied), it may well damage its hoof, especially since it is presumably unshod at the time.
Plenty of people have problems spelling the homophones "Pour" "paw" and "pore", and not particularly in Australia. Here are seven examples from Australia of "pouring the ground", all of which should read "pawing the ground":
https://www.google.es/search?num=100&hl=es&lr=&cr=countryAU&...
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Note added at 57 mins (2012-03-21 10:57:55 GMT)
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I should be more careful when commenting on other peoples' mistakes: I meant to write "Farriers are people who attend to horses' feet". "Runs its hoofs along the ground" is not wrong, but the plural of hoof is more commonly "hooves".
Plenty of people have problems spelling the homophones "Pour" "paw" and "pore", and not particularly in Australia. Here are seven examples from Australia of "pouring the ground", all of which should read "pawing the ground":
https://www.google.es/search?num=100&hl=es&lr=&cr=countryAU&...
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Note added at 57 mins (2012-03-21 10:57:55 GMT)
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I should be more careful when commenting on other peoples' mistakes: I meant to write "Farriers are people who attend to horses' feet". "Runs its hoofs along the ground" is not wrong, but the plural of hoof is more commonly "hooves".
Note from asker:
Thanks, Charles. I'll try to remember absent/present "r"s the next time I'm stumped! |
Peer comment(s):
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Martin Riordan
: A fine example of the Internet "legitimising" mistakes.
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Yes indeed. But it's also useful for finding which mistakes people tend to make. Thanks, Martin!
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B D Finch
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Thanks, Barbara (if I may).
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Ty Kendall
: POUR / PAW / PORE / POOR ....in this case, it should definitely be "paw". (I live on a farm) - Sheep do it when they're about to give birth and horses do it for any number of reasons - in this case: frustration.
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Thanks for the first-hand confirmation, Ty!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "It's all in the pronunciation! Thanks!"
Discussion
http://www.horseproblems.com.au/Archives/g.htm
"Now big cracks, you have toe cracks and quarter cracks. They can be caused by pawing, improper hoof balance, too much flare or a rock."
http://blog.farrierfletcher.com/2011/07/04/hoof-cracks.aspx
I can't rule out some other special Aussie meaning, and maybe somebody will come up with one, but I haven't found one.
As I said in my answer, I don't think Aussies are particularly bad at spelling, but many English speakers have trouble spelling homophones. I've given some Aussie examples in my answer.
P.S. Are capital letters yours, or in the original document?