Thread: In Defense of English
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Old 04-17-2009, 04:33 PM   #199
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I hate to spoil it for you, but that's not how the butterfly got its name. It's always been butterfly in English.

http://www.takeourword.com/arc_logi.html#butterfl



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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I think my all time favourite "word change" has to be the word "butterfly", which was originally "flutterby". Isn't that just a beautifully descriptive word for what a butterfly does?
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