I'm enjoying Season 1 of the wonderful PBS series "Downton Abbey" on DVD, and in episode 3 there's an exciting foxhunting scene shot at Highclere Castle in Berkshire. I checked the Internet to see how accurate it was, and it gets pretty high marks, though of course there are cavillers who quibbled about things like how Lady Mary was holding her hunting whip (thong end down; imagine!).
For my part, I was watching with the subtitles turned on and got a chuckle out of the fact that the caption referred to the hounds as .... "dogs."
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