Then there"s pork, which entered English from French in the 14th century. French is a Romance language, a language that developed from Latin. So if English speakers had been raising swine and consuming its flesh for a few hundred years, why, in the 14th century, did they begin using the term pork? As one word lover pointed out, it wasn"t as if some 14th century peasant woke up one morning and picked out a Latin-based word to join the lexicon.

In fact, we can thank—or blame—the Norman invaders for the advent of pork. One result of the 11th century Normandy invasion was that French speakers became the ruling upper class. While the lower classes raised the swine, those to the manner born were served, at their request, pork.

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