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In German, pigs say "grunz" instead of "oink." This sounds much closer to an actual pig noise, in my opinion.
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Back in the seventeenth century pigs were commonly called grunters (and baby pigs, rather than being called piglets, were called the extremely delightful gruntling)
Pigs are included for like thirty five different languages there
What twee Victorian children’s author decided that a simple down to earth grunt was too earthy and licentious for polite company
Anyways, it appears to be more recent than all that - Etymonline is first attesting it in 1965 and Merriam Webster has it at 1938.
Which I guess is potentially also an onomatopoetic pig sound off of a squeal
I’m probably gonna spend the afternoon listening to pig call compilations and no I will not feel like this is a waste of my time
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“Oink” is pretty close if you snort while you say it
But then I suppose so is any other word
Oh yeah, they're stupid dangerous.
I would rather run across a mountain lion or grizzly bear than a feral hog.
What’s the difference between a gruntling and a suckling
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Whether or not they've managed to shoulder their way to a teat, I suppose.
Another word for a young pig is shoat. My mom discovered this and promptly called my brother and I this for the rest of our childhood.
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germanised map of england
Both maps seem confused as to which type of settlements the endings originally denote
England and parts of Germany also share a pattern of earlier Roman and later Germanic place names which gets put through the mangle
... Nethersex is a goddamn stroke of genius
Feral hog or bull moose or bull hippo?
Probably the moose.
Dense forests are their enemies because of the antlers, so if you're running into one you can at least use that to your advantage. That's where you'll probably be if you run into one generally too.
Hog come in packs, so, fuck that noise.
Hippos probably can climb trees with their magic pissed off powers and shit I don't know but something tells me I don't want to run across them either.
Moose can run like 30 mph through ass deep snow.
But like
if I had to pick one definitely the moose because I might survive that if I get them bored of running around trees.
The Hell Pig! aka Entelodonts
It's skull
We do not know if the flanges on either side of the skull were extra muscle anchors or for rutting or what
Like hippos they could open their jaw a 150 degrees
Hippos are big enough I bet they could just knock the tree down to get to you.
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How big do you think moose are?
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Moose are very big and heavy! Still less than half the size of a hippo though. I used to know guys who would go up and bow hunt moose. They always had a guide with a big fuck off rifle as backup for if the arrow didn't drop the moose right away, and the moose figured out where they were.
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I was under the impression feral hogs were not in fact good eating because of how tough their meat is
nothing a fuck ton of tenderizing can't fix