> It's true that "coney" is an Olde English word for rabbit, but I for one have never heard the term used in everyday conversation. Rabbit is the standard.
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> Bea"fount of knowledge of all things British..."sty

That's what you get for mixing up a language out of a whole bunch of others. "Coneys" come to us from Latin (cuniculus). "Rabbits" come to us through one of the Germanic languages, I guess. Somehow or other, one becomes the Right Word To Use, and the other just hangs around in regional dialects and fantasy novels written by Anglo-Saxon Studies professors.

I always assumed that was where the name "Coney Island" came from, too. Maybe there were lots of rabbits there once? I doubt there are many now.

Brunnen-"fount of knowledge of all things nobody but me cares about any more"G