A Michael Broad Blog
When writing about cats you might, from time to time, have to refer to some scientific stuff including the taxonomy of cats (scientific classification). Also if you want to add a bit of gravitas (or give the impression that you are an expert 😎) to your text you can use the word ‘felid’ instead …
The origin of the word “meow” is an onomatopoeic representation of the actual sound that domestic cats make, usually when requesting something such as food, albeit that it is a stereotypic representation because the domestic cat meow is very variable and often does not sound like a typical meow at all. The word ‘meow’ …
A clowder is a group of cats in the same place1 (see the picture above). I was prompted into researching the word by Shelley, who posted this article recently: I love ferals. The interesting thing about this old fashioned and rarely used word (I presume that it is not obsolete) is its origins – …
You can’t search for “Maine Coon” on TikTok because their internal search engine rejects the term as they think that it ‘may be associated with hateful behaviour’. It’s time to change the name of the Maine Coon 😢. It is out of step with the woke era. It is a valid point, actually. The …
I should know because I am British. The key in pronouncing cheetah properly is to make sure the second syllable is pronounced ‘tuh’ and not ‘ter’. The first syllable is clear: ‘chee’. My recording is in ‘received pronunciation’ or the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England, widely …
On this page I discuss how to say and use the phrase “Felis catus“. This is Latin. By convention, when Latin is written in sentences the first word is capitalised and the phrase is italicised. That’s the first complication. The second complication is that “Felis catus” is the scientific name for the domestic cat …
This is how you say the word ‘feline’. I’ve also added some sentences including the word so you can see how it is used in a sentence. People rarely use the word ‘feline’. It is interchangeable with the word ‘cat’ but the use of the word ‘feline’ is more elegant sometimes. It is an …
This is how you pronounce Panthera onca. It looks easy! But a major website which has the sole purpose of informing you how to pronounce words totally screws up 😕 . That site is: synonyms.com. Sorry guys but your work on this is horrible. Please click on the link below and you’ll be immediately …
