Q. Why is beef called beef and not cow?

Via Answerbag:

Beef is from the French “boeuf” which means cow, and por from the French “porc”, pig. Likewise mutton is from the French “mouton” sheep. Back in Norman times, these were the main farm animals – turkey, chicken, etc. cam later. The poor farmhands who tended the live animals called them by their Anglos-Saxon names of cow, pig, sheep.

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