Re: Word connections - malaise and sit

Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> Nathan Roy wrote:
> [snip]>
> >similar to how pork, mutton, venison and beef are more sophisticated terms
> >than pig, sheep, deer and cow.
>
> More sophisticated? I thought the only difference was that the first set
> refered to the animals as food, and the second to 'em in any other situation
> (bar highly scientific ones where they'll be refered to by systematic latin
> names) ...
I'm sure someone has made this remark already, but pig, sheep, deer and
cow
are Anglo-Saxon, and pork, mutton, venison, and beef are Norman French.
They
are only "sophisticated" because they were used by an "elite" conquering
people after the Norman Conquest in 1066.  In other words, the English
servants tended the pigs, sheep, and cows and probably dressed the deer,
but
the aristocratic Normans ate pork, mutton, beef, and venison at the
king's
table.

Sally
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