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What hobby seems boring to most people but is actually fascinating if you dive into it? (lemmy.world)

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Tell us why we should unexpectedly come to love your hobby.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Not a specific word, but it's fascinating to me how, because of the Norman invasion in 1066, fancier words are of French origin and lower-class words are Germanic. So the animal is a cow, but we eat beef (boeuf) and the animal is a pig, but we eat pork (porc). Chicken was something even the poor ate, so it didn't change.

[-] jantin@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

"Poultry" though

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Good point, I forgot about that.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are other funny things going on in animal names.

A "chicken" is a young "cock", just as a "kitten" is a young "cat".

And a "rabbit" was a young "coney" — which rhymes with "honey".

But folks got prudish and they didn't want to talk about cocks and coneys in front of the kids, so words like "chicken" and "rabbit" took over.

Meanwhile over at the pig farm, how does a farmer call a hog?

They holler "Soo-ee!", right?

They're speaking Latin. That's "Sui!" — the vocative form of "sus", Latin for pig. Folks have been talking to their pigs in Latin for a long, long time.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That’s “Sui!” — the vocative form of “sus”, Latin for pig.

Everywhere I go, I see his face...

[-] BloodyFable@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

holy shit would you look at that

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

So a bunny rabbit is a bunny coney?

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