Talk:Spoor (animal)

Latest comment: 1 year ago by TooManyFingers in topic Spurn "as in ankle"

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Is it pronounced like "spore" ?

Yes it is. Karicats7 (talk) 20:54, 11 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Spurn "as in ankle"

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As far as I can determine, the word "spurn" has never referred to an ankle in any form of English. The source given, etymonline, traces the origin back to an ancient Proto-Indo-European word with that meaning, but that isn't close to the same thing. TooManyFingers (talk) 00:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)Reply