Originally Posted By: beck123
I'm curious if you folks out there say BO-vine or BO-veen. I've heard the latter on occasion, mostly in academic surroundings.

I pronounce BO-vine, like divine. From age 8 to 12 I spent the August months on a farm up north in the country. I knew the seventeen cows by there names. Daughters were sometimes called after their mothers. There was Dora I and Dora II. I was allowed to get up at five and join in getting them from the meadow to the milking house. I love cows for their velvety eyes and patient behaviour. I don't really like to eat them. I'm not surprised at all that in Hinduism the cow is considered sacred.