Talk:deer meat

deer meat
SOP, and not even a good translation target, since venison is significantly more common (and even bare deer has this sense, and had a translations table accordingly, until I merged it into venison&apos;s). - -sche (discuss) 18:40, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 22:31, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * What is to become of ? Leasnam (talk) 00:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeed: if "deermeat" is valid, "deer meat" ought to stay around per WT:COALMINE. Equinox ◑ 00:56, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added cites for deermeat. bd2412 T 01:44, 21 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep because of deermeat. Pur ple back pack 89  02:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)


 * RFD withdrawn; I hadn't noticed the link to and existence of deermeat. - -sche (discuss) 03:47, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I seriously question whether venison is a more commonly used term than deer meat...at least in the part of the US where I live one never hears "venison" anymore...it is quoted in the bible, and thats really about it...maybe its a British-American thing ?...Leasnam (talk) 04:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It must be regional. Venison is standard in the UK.  Do you speak of cowmeat and sheepmeat where you live?    D b f  i  r  s   08:32, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * In the UK I have never heard of "deer meat" - but venison is the normal word for this meat (my local supermarket sells venison steaks, sausages and meatballs). SemperBlotto (talk) 08:33, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * A check of [//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deer+meat%2C+venison&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdeer%20meat%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvenison%3B%2Cc0 American English] works with Google's ngram viewer matches my anecdotal experience that "venison" was the usual term in the US [//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deer+meat%2Cvenison&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdeer%20meat%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvenison%3B%2Cc0 as well as the UK]. So, if it's a regional issue, it must indeed be regional and not national. - -sche (discuss) 08:49, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok. It is however less common than in the 19th c. which makes sense. It must be eclipsed by just "deer" rather than "deer meat/deermeat" then, but its impossible to winnnow out the "flesh of a deer" sense using that. And no, no "cowmeat" or "sheepmeat", yet one does hear "lamb" above the old fashioned "mutton". Leasnam (talk) 11:59, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I was partially joking about cowmeat. As far as I know, that word has been used only to mean fodder for cows.  On the other hand, sheepmeat is occasionally used to cover both mutton and lamb on both sides of the pond, also in Australia, and in Europe as a translation of the French "viande ovine".    D b f  i  r  s   20:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC)