Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:58:59AM -0800, James A. Treacy wrote: > > Can you at least tell us the preferred form for English? > > "the Hurd" is the correct form. > > Marcus Should it follow the gender of the word for "herd" in the language? For example "das Hurd" cf "das Herde" ??? Dan.