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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Etymology of butterfly #77199 08/07/2002 5:53 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada boronia enthusiast boronia enthusiast Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada Normally, I don't think German sounds so great, but this time I have to agree, what IS wrong with Schmetterling? It rolls quite nicely on the tongue. In fact, Schmetterling and Entschuldigung are two of my favourite words! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Etymology of butterfly wwh 07/29/2002 5:03 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly Jackie 07/30/2002 3:51 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly FishonaBike 07/31/2002 10:53 AM Re: Etymology of butterfly AnnaStrophic 07/31/2002 12:29 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly maverick 07/31/2002 11:47 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly Jackie 08/01/2002 2:04 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly Alex Williams 08/07/2002 5:36 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly boronia 08/07/2002 5:53 PM linguistic comparisons FishonaBike 08/07/2002 9:06 PM Re: linguistic comparisons Alex Williams 08/08/2002 3:00 AM Re: linguistic comparisons Faldage 08/08/2002 10:23 AM Re: linguistic comparisons boronia 08/08/2002 12:28 PM Re: linguistic comparisons FishonaBike 08/08/2002 1:37 PM Re: Etymology of butterfly Jackie 08/10/2002 12:35 AM Re: Etymology of butterfly FishonaBike 07/31/2002 10:49 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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