[GATOR NAVY]

My favourite piece of linguistic trivia is evidence of Norman pidgin surviving today in English words for live domestic animals and French ones for dead meat.

While not a domestic animal, I remember reading that "deer" and "venison" are also in this category.

[blam]

"While not a domestic animal, I remember reading that "deer" and "venison" are also in this category."

Muawiyah's people (as well as my mother's people, Sa'ami) domesticated the reindeer...he'll know.

[muawiyah]

Doesn't matter whether or not the animal was domesticated. The Angles and Saxons (Danes and Dutch) had their own words for animals and meat, as did the Norman French.

This is not unique ~ in English the tendency was to select the Anglo-Saxon name for the animal and the French name for the product.

T-bone steak, though, is it's own explanation eh!