Strangely enough the question to come out of this lesson in two of my classes (out of three) was, "what is the difference between pigs and pork?" Guess if you can't eat them anyway there really doesn't need to be a different word.
Which brings up the question, what is the difference between ham and pork?
Ham is the thigh and the butt; pork is anything from a pig. So when I went to Birmingham and found "the best butts in town..." that was a ham sandwich.
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The difference is that pig is a Germanic word and pork is a Romance language word. Most of the animals' names are Germanic from the Anglo-Saxon. Most of the food names come from Norman French. History ties in with language again!
Another good comparison is for them to use Google Earth to follow the DMZ. The empty North Korean show cities on the border are freaky.
My wife beat me to that one.
Also beef/cow.
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