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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by amirkdv on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:41AM (#27221716)
The dual origin story of the English language is quite fascinating!

There's a Wikipedia page dedicated to a list of just what you described, synonymous words with Romance vs Germanic origins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_d...

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by patrickthebold on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:25PM (#27223245)
I noticed dove/pigeon on there:

I was taking an Arabic class and the professor was Egyptian. At one point she mentioned 'Pigeons of peace', which sounded ridiculous to my ears since 'doves' are a peace symbol and not pigeons, even though they are the same animal.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by irrational on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:35PM (#27225233)
I had no idea doves and pigeons are the same animal. Fascinating!
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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by nkrisc on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:27AM (#27222403)
The first section with the foods helps illustrate the class difference: the Germanic words we still use in English to describe the animal, while the Norman words we still use to describe the processed food products from the animal.
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