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Is "sow" really a word for pig? Or did they just want something that sounds like the German "Sau"? Also, when print-scan-copy-all-in-one devices were a new thi

by m4lvin 4y ago

Is "sow" really a word for pig? Or did they just want something that sounds like the German "Sau"? Also, when print-scan-copy-all-in-one devices were a new thing, I liked to call them Eierlegende Wollmilchsau. Any other devices that come to mind?

WesolyKubeczek 4y ago
It’s quite a cromulent word for a female pig.
lqet 4y ago
A sow is a female pig. It has exactly the same meaning as "Sau" in German, and even sounds the same. "Pig" is "Schwein" in German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig
- netsharc 4y ago
  And Schwein is probably where the word swine comes from.
kuramitropolis 4y ago
Is "pork"? There's a layer of English that has decidedly Germanic origins; see also "legal doublets".
- fifticon 4y ago
  porc is french, generally english meat animals turn french when you kill them to eat them - no joke.
  - wolfi1 4y ago
    we were told in class that the meat is called what the nobility called it and the nobility spoke french