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In response to
"I actually learned this one the other day (via Reddit). It's something about how French words for food differed between royalty and peasants -- nm"
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oblique
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This is about how the Normans (who ate the meat) used different words than the Anglo-Saxons they conquered (and who raised the animals)
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Sep 26 '24, 06:58
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So the English words for meat - beef, porc, ham, mutton - have French origins, and the words for animals - cow, pig, chicken, sheep - have Anglo-Saxon origins
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