Another footnote: English vocabulary and etymology also encode history beyond provenance. The words in English for meat and its sources are the go-to example.

Another footnote: English vocabulary and etymology also encode history beyond provenance. The words in English for meat and its sources are the go-to example. The words for the animals, are from Anglo-Saxon. The words for the meat as you eat it, are from French. Because England acquired its French from occupation c. 1066; the peasants knew the animals but it was the new French-speaking aristocracy were the ones that ate them.