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Then, too, today we find interesting pairs of words such ascowandbeef, sheepandmutton, calfandveal,andpigandporkin which the first item, the name of the animal, is Germanic in()(originate)and the second item, the meat of the animal, is a borrowing from French.

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Perhaps the occurrence of such pairs reflects a society in which the()(conquest)Englishman raised the animals for the table of the conquering Norman.

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