{"id":6045,"date":"2026-10-11T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-do-we-say-cow-but-beef-englishlanguage-language-history\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:15:18","slug":"why-do-we-say-cow-but-beef-englishlanguage-language-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-do-we-say-cow-but-beef-englishlanguage-language-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we say &#8216;cow&#8217; but &#8216;beef&#8217;? #EnglishLanguage #Language #History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RPC5tk2wfqY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore how the Norman Conquest shaped the English language, blending Anglo-Saxon words with French used by the elite.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Here For The History on BBC Sounds and Watch on YouTube:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0ns1h35<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RPC5tk2wfqY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore how the Norman Conquest shaped the English language, blending Anglo-Saxon words with French used by the elite. Listen to Here For The History on BBC Sounds and Watch on YouTube: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0ns1h35 source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150889,"featured_media":6046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10968,11936,11933,11934,5976,193,4203,5622,11935],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-alice-loxton","tag-anglo-saxon","tag-ben-henderson","tag-english-language","tag-french","tag-history","tag-history-facts","tag-language","tag-norman-conquest","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}