There are other funny things going on in animal names.

A "chicken" is a young "cock", just as a "kitten" is a young "cat".

And a "rabbit" was a young "coney" — which rhymes with "honey".

But folks got prudish and they didn't want to talk about cocks and coneys in front of the kids, so words like "chicken" and "rabbit" took over.

Meanwhile over at the pig farm, how does a farmer call a hog?

They holler "Soo-ee!", right?

They're speaking Latin. That's "Sui!" — the vocative form of "sus", Latin for pig. Folks have been talking to their pigs in Latin for a long, long time.