> On 10/09/2012 16:52, Jerry Friedman wrote:
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> > On Sep 7, 1:17 pm, Jerry Friedman<
je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
> >> On Sep 5, 3:10 am, James Hogg<Jas.H...@gOUTmail.com> wrote:
> >>> the Omrud wrote:
> >>>> On 04/09/2012 04:26, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> >>>>> An arthropod has or had a colloquial name that appears to be a variant
> >>>>> of a well-known word derived from a person's name, though there's no
> >>>>> apparent connection to the person or the word. What is the colloquial
> >>>>> name, and what is a scientific name or widely used and unequivocal
> >>>>> common name for the arthropod?
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> >>>>> Toughie: What is the origin of this name? (The panel has no idea.)
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> >>>> Unlikely, but: Assassin Bug, Reduviidae?
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> >>> Even more unlikely: the cranefly (Tipula spp) is known as
> >>> Harry-long-legs, after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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> >> <smile>
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> >> Yet another common name refers to an animal that it's falsely supposed
> >> to attack.
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> > I meant "mammal". By the way, the well-known word derived from a
> > person's name is an American word that I have a particular reason to
> > be interested in--especially the variant of it used for the arthropod.
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> I'm definitely stuck, but I thought you'd like the giant centipede
> called "Jerry Arthropod", who lives only in the fantasy-rpg land of Fae
> in the Legend of Elysia.
Jerry Friedman, T. O. H. P. B.