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Re: psychoceramics:Midges
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- Subject: Re: psychoceramics:Midges
- From: Jack Lyons <revjack @ saltmine.radix.net>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:15:46 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <B--@e--.very.net>
- Keywords: Hexapodia as the key insight
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
- Summary: Everything is Light
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Nikolai Kingsley wrote:
>
> > Last night I discovered the English translation for the term for
> Daddy-Long-Legs
> > (the Crane fly) in four European languages.
>
>
> i was under the impression that a Daddy-Long-Legs was a kind of arachnid.
That too. There was a big discussion in alt.slack a while back about this,
and it seems that only in America are the winged ones called "crane flies"
and the arachnids called "daddy longlegs". Check the Oxford English
Dictionary for "daddy longlegs", for a modest surprise.
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