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Diane Weissinger wrote:
> What do other mammals do with their young? They don't "breastfeed." Do
> they nurse? Suckle? Something else? In the US I think we'd say they
> nurse. What about other English-speaking countries? "Here's a picture of
a
> dog _____ing its puppies."
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I think we'd say, here, "feeding" or "suckling" in the case of an animal.
"Nursing" sort of implies having arms to do it. I can remember when - just
as our mothers told us "animals sweat, ladies perspire" - animals suckled
their young and human mothers breastfed. As late as 1968 in Townsville, a
daunting midwife who was clearly anti-breastfeeding, spat at me the
question: "Do you *suckle* your babies?" Obviously she thought it
animalian.
Cheers,
Virginia
in sunny Brisbane, Queensland
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