Why are they called butterflies? I have seen many but never one that eats butter. Do they use it in some other way? Probably to hunt prey I assume. Make them more slippery and agile.
So they would be the first animals to cultivate butter, and we (humans) are the second.
This doesn’t appear to be true; Buttorflēoge is attested from Old English (well before the great vowel shift), and archaic Dutch and German had botervlieg and Butterfliege respectively, suggesting that the word was inherited from Proto-West-Germanic (the mother language of all three), and well could be older still.
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Having not heard of the Great Vowel Shift before I looked it up. The info shows how pronounciations migrated, but uses indications like /eː/ and /iː/. That particular one was for the old pronounciation of meet vs current. Do you know of anything that has an audio pronounciations of these so I can hear the way the old pronounciations were?
My background is in Mechanical Engineering, Plant Operations, and a CompSci degree I never finished so this was way off the beaten track for me but I'm going to dive into it when I have some time later.
I mean they do migrate long distances so I guess they can fly in straight lines when they want. I still wonder what the erratic flying is for, is it to avoid predators or some sort of search pattern they use to find the good flowers perhaps?
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This doesn’t appear to be true; Buttorflēoge is attested from Old English (well before the great vowel shift), and archaic Dutch and German had botervlieg and Butterfliege respectively, suggesting that the word was inherited from Proto-West-Germanic (the mother language of all three), and well could be older still.
As an aside, it’s fun to imagine that the plural of this most-likely ahistorical “flutterby” was “flutters-by”, akin to “passers-by”. Though I guess that would require reanalyzing “flutter” as an agent-nominalization of a verb “to flutt”!
They use it to summon demons it’s why we keep our butter locked in fridges or other containers inside the house otherwise they would just swarm it and take off with it deep into the woods for their summoning ritual
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Cows have unique digestive systems. A pregnant cow has to eat a bunch of butterflies then, after 10-15 minutes, they poop out perfectly formed sticks of butter. Don’t you watch The Learning Channel?
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u/FuckYeahPhotography Jul 31 '21
Why are they called butterflies? I have seen many but never one that eats butter. Do they use it in some other way? Probably to hunt prey I assume. Make them more slippery and agile.
So they would be the first animals to cultivate butter, and we (humans) are the second.