2007-06-20 19:57:53 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You seriously dont know??? Look CLOSELY at the ingredients on a tub of butter...... just kidding..
Butterflys used to be called... flutter-bys or in singular flutter-by because that is what they did.... it was changed to butterfly to give it more of a name than a description.
2007-06-20 20:02:08 · answer #1 · answered by Texas Tiger 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Where did such a silly name for such an ancient creature originate? Modern etymology suggests that the word butterfly comes from the Old English word butterfleoge. There are separate schools of thought on why "butter" and "fly" were combined. Some believe that the name comes from the fact that butterfly excrement looks like butter, but most butterflies only pass excess water and do not in fact excrete anything. Others hold that it was due to the belief that witches and fairies, in the form of the insects, stole milk and/or butter. The remaining theories involve butter colored insects, butter churning in spring, interesting but I think there is your answer.
2007-06-20 22:21:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
first of all, butterflies have been around longer than human beings and butter. the rationalization that common call caught is by technique of the fact particular butterflies had the comparable shade as butter. So, confident they do have some thing to do with butter.
2016-10-08 22:40:13 · answer #3 · answered by hammet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some dyslexic person wrote about butterflys, they meant to call them Flutterbys.......... because of the way they gently flutter by.
2007-06-21 03:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by Lauren J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who can figure? After all, we live in a society that drives on parkways and parks on driveways. We have alarm clocks that go 'off' by going on and 'on' by going off. And we eat hamburgers that have no ham and hot dogs that have nothing to do with dogs.
Yeesh! We even use oxymorons like 'civil war', 'military intelligence', and 'politically correct'.
Besides, if you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, what do you call it....?
English is a very torturous experience.....
Take it from a professional english tutor.
2007-06-20 20:06:51 · answer #5 · answered by krazykritik 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They used to have butter in them.They had to switch to margarine some time back during the butter shortage.
2007-06-20 20:03:00 · answer #6 · answered by Professor Riddle 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I see wht you did,two different profile,the same except you answered and ask different questions..you are weird for a 15 year old..strange questions.what with the chair obsession.
2007-06-20 20:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
as butter is slippery
and they fly like they are slipping in air
2007-06-21 00:52:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your wizard ancestors concocted it out of butter!
2007-06-20 21:48:49 · answer #9 · answered by 123 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their wings are as soft as butter?
2007-06-20 20:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by ßαßε 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋