On Hunting Boar -

Did you know . . .

that a "pig is a hog - hog is a generic term for all swine - but a hog is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old."
Seems to me that in the southern states of the US this terminology related to domesticated pigs (sus domesticus - sic!) was casually transferred to all wild pigs (sus scrofa, ha ha) a little indiscriminately. We can go hog hunting, but according to the terminology above should not call the young of a hog piglets but rather (melon striped) pigs.

Glad there is no pig terminology police.
PJJ