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That's the reason for the animal/meat duality, right? Such as pig/pork, beef/cow. The working classes spoke English and dealt with the live animals, the elites
by JetSpiegel 11y ago
That's the reason for the animal/meat duality, right?
Such as pig/pork, beef/cow. The working classes spoke English and dealt with the live animals, the elites just ate them.
- cmurf 11y agochicken, duck, goose, pheasant, squab / poultry?
- davidgay 11y agoOne of those doesn't belong before the /: Pheasant: from Old French fesan. (the current french is faisan).
- CWuestefeld 11y agoThis is a funny aspect of English. In general, we distinguish the meat of mammals (beef, pork, venison, mutton, ...), but non-mammals are their meat (fish, chicken, ...). But I don't think this is well explained by a class distinction. I mean, the classes of people who raised sheep weren't so different from the people who raised chickens.