Pig. The former is Norman-French, the latter Saxon.
“Pork, I think, is good Norman-French; and so, when the brute lives,
and is in charge of a Saxon slave, she goes by her Saxon name; but
becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the
castle-hall.” —Sir Walter Scott; Ivanhoe.
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