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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If chicken is chicken
Duck is duck
Goat is goat
Why is cow beef
Pig pork
because we got a lot of our words from the normans boeuf cow beef, porc pig pork
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The Normans ate it but the Saxons reared them; the meat is normally of French origin but Saxon words to describe the animal
Thanks to Mr Hamilton my old history teacher for that trawl down memory lane.......... back to my coffee  |
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