Old English Pigs and Old French Pork: The Linguistic Cleaving of Animals

Animalogy \ The Animals in Our Everyday Words & Phrases by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Apr 9, 201733:14Arts

Roughly 10,000 new words entered the English language during the Norman occupation and assimilation, particularly those having to do with the world of the ruling class. The effects of the linguistic class division are mo...

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