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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I hate to spoil it for you, but that's not how the butterfly got its name. It's always been butterfly in English.
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That`s certainly what I thought, flutterby was just a fun swap round to make another name (I`m sure there`s a correct term for that but I don`t know it, sorry)
It annoys me when I hear people using "non-standard" English particularly when people adopt slang terms because they want to be "with it" such as using the word "aks" instead of "ask" as in "I want to aks you something" (in frequent use in Futurama which I love
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And yet I can see how a language will change and has changed over time it`s just a shame to me when a change used in another country becomes used by the original speakers of the language and I`m thinking here of the words "disorientate" and "disorientated" which are becoming "disorient" and "disoriented". I`m sorry but I just think it`s lazy.
Why do such things annoy me? I don`t know, I guess I`m just an old chuffa
("I guess"? is that correct English? I guess not
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