Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Butterfly?

Why do we call these floppy-winged insects Butterflies?|||Because they fly and maybe their bodies are soft like butter? Or we don't want bread flying? But... The Old English word for butterfly was buttorfleoge apparently because butterflies were thought to steal milk or folk etymology that it originated as a contraction of butter-coloured fly.|||a caveman found a stick of butter with a fly inside of it. he sat on the butter(like an incubator) and after a few months a beautiful little green creature was formed. This wasn't the butterfly though. Today, you might know these as lizards. Eventually, some lizards evolved into butterflies. I read this story on www.butterlizards.com. you should check it out.|||we just do. same reason why we call dogs 'dogs'

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