Frequently Asked Questions
Why are they called butterflies?
- The word has been in the English language for centuries, the word was "buterfleoge" in Old English, which means butterfly in our English today.
- One story is that they were named so because it was thought that butterflies, or witches that took on the shape of butterflies, stole milk and butter.
- In other languages, the word for our fluttery friends has no such derivation as "butter" + "fly".
One can only speculate on why the English language uses such an unlikely name.
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