Why Do Some Animals Have Different Names When Eaten?

Hey look a new video! And it's only been a week since my last video? I normally stick to every other Friday but I've had some time off my job job so thought I'd get you guys an extra video out. :D

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING

PHOTO SOURCES
Sheep: Boris Gaaasbeek
Pulled pork sandwich: vagueonthehow
Cowboy: John C. H. Grabill
Farm: Erik Spoelstra
Hunter: Erdogan Ergun
Steak: Clint Rankin
Beef Burger: Agnes Sim

PRONUNCIATION SOURCES THAT I’VE PROBABLY MESSED UP

"Guts and Bourbon"
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[NameExplain]

Off topic question: Best Beatles song? I'm in love with She's Leaving Home At The Moment.

[tangerinealarm]

Deer and Venison is another example of the animal / meat change.

[spoxx]

I have a proposition for a new series: Our Daily Etymology. It simply describes the etymology of extremely common words like and, to, or, etc.

[youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan]

do a video why Netherlands call their people Dutch instead of Netherlandish
switzerland = swiss
denmark = danish
philippines = filipino

[turun_ambartanen]

I know: french speaking upper class (eat processed meat) and English speaking lower class (breeding the animals)

[enablechaos]

I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I've been thinking that a video on the names of our parts of speech would be pretty interesting, at least to me... Perhaps linguistics stuff like that wouldn't be as fun, but if people are here, I'd assume that it would be a topic that they would be fine with. Either way, nice video!

[Roderick]

"you're calling it a beef burger"
No I'll just call it a hamburger or just burger like normal people

[DisEkript]

Hi! Love your channel. I also love learning languages and their history.
Can you at some point make a video about the Great Vowel Shift?

[aems]

I find the start of the video about disconnecting the meat from the animal very interesting! An American writed called Carol J. Adams used the concept of Absent referent to point at the process of decoupling the meat from the animal. Good video by the way!

[oralboytoy]

Your animations are hilarious! I like the expressions and gesticulations.
0:19 1:31

[adammoore]

Finally a youtube channel thats answers the questions I always ask myself.

[kaiserwilhelm]

In Dutch, we just use the same words. Do you eat meat from a pig, (varken in Dutch) then it's varkensvlees (vlees = meat)

[TheMrchachalaka]

in spanish we just call everything "carne"

[jovanweismiller]

You left out deer becoming venison (unless of course, you're in Canada, where it's usually just called 'deer meat'!). And, it's quite possible that chicken and duck retained their Saxon names because the peasants could raise them and eat them themselves, whereas kine, swine, and ovines tended to be reserved for the Norman table.

[jimsouch]

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More Youtubers I love come closer.Amazing

[skaweirromeda]

You answer the questions I don't even know I have, and I love it

[siveth]

Normands weren't really French, they were a group of Scandinavian vikings who were given land in exchange for a change in culture & mainly religion. They were frenchy Vikings.

[Furienna]

In Swedish, there's a tiny distinction too. So we've got one word for a pig ("gris") and a different word for pork meat ("fläsk", cognate of the English word "flesh"), which both are Germanic. And we don't say that we eat "cow" either; we either say "biff" (which is the same word as the English "beef") or "nötkött" ("bovine meat").

[kucingsalting]

Thank you for another great video! Could you by any chance make a video about the how currencies from various countries got their names?

[agbook]

William the Conquerer? I've always seen it as William the Conqueror... but great video!

Apparently conquerer is the obsolete form... So I learned something new!