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TIL that in Old English "deer" described any animal. As language evolved, the meaning changed and narrowed until it started to describe only one type of animal. It's a change unique to English and Scots, as "deer" (tier, djur, dyr, dier, etc.) still means animal in all other Germanic languages.

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