ec magazine

Keep it simple.
Keep it short.
Call us ec.

Eh-Cwuss Cuh-BALL-us = domestic horse

If you’re a horse person, I’m betting you’re a busy person. Busy people do everything fast. We like shortcuts and timesavers. We’re the folks who stand by the microwave while looking impatiently at our watches.

We’re quick. We’re in a hurry.

We’re in such a rush, in fact, that we constantly assign nicknames to words longer than a few syllables. Electronic mail is “e-mail,” Interstate 75 is “I-75,” the World Wide Web is simply “www,” and Personal Data Assistants are “PDA’s.”

With scientific terms, we’re even more liberal. Yesterday, I mowed the Paspalum notatum fuegge in my back pasture. Sound like a serious disease? Actually, Paspalum notatum fuegge is common bahia grass.
And in case you were wondering, the title of the slick magazine you’re holding right now, Equus Caballus, is the scientific name for domestic horse.

But you’re busy.

So drop a few syllables.

Those equus caballuses you’re so fond of? Just call ’em horses.

And this magazine? Just call us ec.

Happy reading.
Summer Best
Editor

Did you know? Seminole Feed donates more than $81,000 and hundreds of personal hours to therapeutic riding organizations, equine rescue programs and youth programs and horse show sponsorships each year in the Southeast. If you’d like to share a personal story about therapeutic riding, therapeutic horses or youth horse programs, e-mail editor@ecmagazine.net.