A Conversation for Butterflies
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KateBygrave Started conversation Jul 14, 2006
I once heard that butterflies were called flutterbys. Is that a myth?
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U168592 Posted Jul 14, 2006
Most probably. The name is very onamatopaeic in itself and the original Anglo-Saxon even lent itself to word-play - and we know how much the Anglo-Saxons like their puns 
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