User talk:Tgoulden

A tag has been placed on Zazamafras, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to add more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Mr Stephen 13:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

And a plausible explanation for it's being cow/beef, sheep/mutton, pig/pork but chicken/chicken is this:

Prior to the Norman conquest in 1066 the population of England spoke languages collectively known as Old English. The words for the animals (such as "cow", "pig" and so on) were used for both the animal and its meat. Compare modern German - "pig /Schwein", "pork/Schweinefleisch ("pigmeat")", "calf/Kalb", "veal/Kalbfleisch (calfmeat)" and so on. After 1066 the ruling élite (who ate the meat) spoke Norman French while the peasantry (who tended the live animals but couldn't in general afford the meat) still spoke their original language. "Chicken" was an exception because they were inexpensive; an English serf of a Norman lord couldn't afford to kill and butcher a cow into what his Norman-speaking lord called "bœuf" but he could afford to keep a few chickens (or, indeed pullets, from the French "poulet"). There's probably an article about it somewhere - if you're in the least interested you could try asking on the Reference Desk. Tonywalton | Talk 14:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)