SC - question: linguistics and food

[Huette von Ahrens]

Hi, 

The best book I could recommend is:

McCrum, Robert
  The Story of English / Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil
... [et al.]  New rev. edition.  New York : Penguin
Books, 1993.
ISBN 0140154051

$19.95 (paperback) from Amazon.com

Huette


- --- Guenevere Nelson-Melby
<Guenevere_Nelson-Melby at needham.k12.ma.us> wrote:
> I am looking for a book that would give me the
> history of the English
> language, along with examples of the
> latin-french-anglo saxon (English)
> words for similar items/ food. In other words,
> something that would tell
> me that pork is from the French and pig from the
> anglo-saxon, and how this
> relates to the development of the language (The
> French came in as upper
> class, so their word would relate to the table, as
> they were consumers,
> the Anglo-Saxon were lower class and were therefore
> the growers, so their
> word would relate the the live animal, and Latin
> came in via scholars, so
> its word would refer to literary references, etc.) I
> remember learning
> this in college, and wish to re-research it.
> Any ideas?
> 
> guenevere
> 
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