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Is there a word that is used when for example Flutterby may be changed into butterfly?
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Welcome, Dear!
I'm not sure whether you mean just this particular word or
not. If you mean times such as when my fifth-grade class fell out laughing because I said "the torners are corn",
that is a spoonerism, after the gentleman who did it so often that that error got named for him.
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My children used to sing a song which went:
"I saw the butterfly flutterby" - the Reverend Spooner had a lot to answer for.
Or did I read that I wasn't supposed to end with a "for"?
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In reply to:
Or did I read that I wasn't supposed to end with a "for"?
If you did, ignore it.
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which reminds me of the childhood riddle:
Why did the dragonfly drink the flagon dry?
Because he saw the butterfly flutter by.
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Dug this out of the archives....and was surprised to note that the etymology of butterfly wasn't explored. I was under the impression that it did derive from "flutter by".
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I'd quote directly but I might be accused of being contadino.Faldage? Are you feeling alright? You look a bit pastey to me, hon. 
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Believe it or not we talked about that one as recently as Jan 29 - see the Groggy Cogitations thread in "Miscellany". Spooky sometimes how the same questions occur so often so close together. 
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Believe it or not we talked about that one as recently as Jan 29 - see the Groggy Cogitations thread in "Miscellany".YeahBuddybut, (c.2002), we did not conclude the discussion. I'll try...On every fourth of July I camp out at Sinking Cove in Tennessee. Sinking Cove is a place that time forgot. Be careful, you might get hit in the head by a flying turkey or get run over by a white-tailed deer. Near a spring discharge on a stretch of cool moist clay you will find hundreds of Butterflies of all kinds. A beautiful sight. The Butterflies come here to get nutrients from the wet clay. The wet clay looks a lot like butter before we got into the habit of coloring butter yellow. If my ice chest wasn't full of beer and I had some butter, I would put the butter in a pot with a lid and bury it in the clay, like they did in England in the Fourteenth Century.
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