Monday, October 27, 2008
Butterfly Etymology
Not entomology, the study of insects. I could not care less about that. Eugene Volokh has a post on where the word butterfly comes from. Metathesis of flutterby, souls of witches, sacred bears, and what butterfly feces look like are discussed in the comments. The AVI weighs in several times.
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