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Adoption from French, I assume. I would say sheep for the animal and lamb for the meat, though.
Lamb (the meat) is specifically young sheep, which are also called lambs. Adult sheep are called sheep, but the meat is called mutton.
English makes no sense.
Hogget for in between.
Oh.., maybe not.
It gets even weirder. As a New Zealander, we would never say hogget for meat for the consumer (unless you went to a 'proper butcher), Farmers/Butchers will call 1-2 y/o sheep hoggets though.
Or a two-tooth 🙂
I agree, I would call the meat of a two-tooth hogget, but if you wanted to buy it in the shop, well I'm not sure you could find it.
Supermarkets call all of it lamb.
But as for consumers, might depend on generation or whereabouts you're from. I have memories of my mother getting angry "this isn't lamb it's hogget" when she tasted it.
I'm from Australia and I've never heard that one. I don't eat lamb (or sheep. Or mutton. Or whatever.) though, so maybe I'm not the best source.
As a teacher of English...I agree.
one of my english teachers in highschool was actually ESL, and from Croatia. She spoke like seven or eight languages, though. It was funny, because occasionally she'd just slip into whatever random language.
She also liked to swear in french. it was truly hair raising. Incidentally, she also refused to use the 'standard' books reading. She'd probably get banned in half the country these days, but she genuinely was probably the best English teacher I've had. also the best french teacher ;)
As a bilingual, switching into other languages by accident often sounds insane, like you're just talking and then "Oh shit, that was the wrong language"
Yeah. I mean, I don't think I ever made a huge deal over it. there were definitely jerks that did though. (and also trolled her to the point of swearing in other languages... I felt bad about that. Especially looking back because I don't think school admin had her back with those kids.)
I have a couple of languages I curse in so I don't get caught, usually Khmer or Portuguese, though the latter is pretty widely spoken/understood.
Sheep in french is mouton. Pig is porc and cow is boeuf. Squid is calmar
lamb is the young animal. Sheep raised for meat don't live long enough to not be lamb, though. old animals tend to produce tougher meat. (as apposed to sheep raised for wool production.)