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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5799018" data-attributes="member: 4682">Not a big deal.Just have some ancient empire use have had latin-ish language that academics would refer to, but your peasants of the contemporary era use plain descriptive terms.It would have historical precedence with the history of english terms for animals when the upper classes of England were french speaking after 1066 but the peasant classes were still anglo saxon, leaving us with beef and cow, lamb and sheep, pork and pig.</blockquote>