Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities

On Feb 3, 2005, at 5:17 AM, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2005, at 8.59 pm, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:15:27 +1100, Tristan McLeay
>> <conlang@...> wrote:
>>> Indeed, like eating a cow. The distinction is much the same :) It's
>>> only natural that something should fill the void left by the loss of
>>> the Norman-derived word beginning with p- that I can't remember.
>> Poulet, I suppose (a common word in Switzerland, only for the meat,
>> not for
>> the animal, and of course pronounced in a Swiss fashion: /'p:ule/).
> Probably _pullet_ in English, and I imagine it'd be pronounced
> englishly like 'pull it' or to rhyme with 'mullet'... and indeed the
> dictionary includes that word, but it's specifically limited to young
> chooks.
Not _poultry_?


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