[PLUG-TALK] Web developer to help small family farm

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Sep 20 12:32:54 UTC 2020


On Sat, 19 Sep 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> English 'hog' is an interesting word. There are a whole bunch of similar
> monosyllabic animal terms that end in -g - pig, dog, stag, etc., and the
> origins of all of them are unsure. Scholars figure that they must belonged
> to their own class of nouns, but what the parameters were is unknown.

There's also cat, bat, rat, etc. :-)

Gee! That's a Masters Thesis topic for someone.

Stay well,

Rich



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