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pork

On-Yomi: トン — Kun-Yomi: ぶた

Koohii stories:

1) [ruuku35] 26-4-2006(203): Pork comes from the flesh of a sow.

2) [Kieron] 16-5-2007(72): One possible pictograph for "sow" primitive: the top line is a feeding trough, the stroke touching it is the head, the long curved stroke is the body (with a little hook at the end for the curly tail), and the four remaining strokes are the sow's legs.

3) [howdycowdy] 15-3-2008(21): When a mother pig nurses its piglets, we call it a SOW. When that same mother pig's body parts are on our plates, we call them PORK.

4) [Howdoken] 4-1-2008(14): Pork is the name we give to the flesh of a sow.

5) [FuDaWei] 13-6-2010(7): When Kermit was caught eating barbecued PORK rinds at the bar with Fozzie, he spent an entire month apologizing to Miss Piggy.

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