Did you ever wonder how parts of a horse were named? I mean, really, who would ever think of naming that funny triangular thing on the bottom of their hoof, a “frog”?
It’s not green, it doesn’t leap or sit on a lily pad. And as far as I know, it doesn’t croak. At least, I’ve never heard one do so – not from the bottom of the hoof anyway.
And ermines? On a horse? I think of luxurious fur when I think of an ermine. Something women used to wrap around their shoulders on a night out. It used to be the height of fashion to have an “ermine stole”.(Now, you’d be tarred and feathered).
So how did they end up calling those little black spots in white socks or stockings around the coronet band become “ermines”? As close as I can figure it, when they used to make ermine stoles or trim, they’d use the black tip of the ermine tails and intersperse it throughout the trim, etc, for contrast.
Can’t you just hear the horses? “Eeeew, your white socks are dirty! You have black spots in them!” “How crass, dahling – I have ermines!”
What about horsefeathers? We’ve all heard that term. I used to think, how silly, horses don’t have feathers. Imagine my surprise when I found out they did!
But who would think to call the long hair at their fetlocks “feathers”? They don’t flap their feet, and take off. Although, sometimes they do appear to “fly”, it’s not in the literal sense.
You have to wonder, who thinks these things up? So if I see a green horse croaking and leaping, wearing an ermine stole on each hoof and flapping it’s legs, I’ll then know why they were called frogs, ermines, and horsefeathers.
Andrea Chapman
copyright Sept 4/09
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