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a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 02 Jul 2009, 06:49 ---For the time being this thread is about trying to figure out why they're called ladybirds or ladybugs when they're clearly neither a bird nor a bug, but a beetle.
Damn, and me 700 kilometres from my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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Apparently it comes from the phrase "our lady's bird", the red representing Mary's cloak and the seven spots representing her seven sorrows and virtues. Apparently the naming comes from the middle ages, which would account for it not being terribly accurate when it comes to classification since it's been mangled a lot over the years. Maybe someone just thought "our lady's beetle" just didn't sound right. Apparently entomologists refer to them as ladybird beetles so at least somebody's getting it right, and these are people for whom looking at pictures of bugs fucking is a legitimate workplace activity. Anyone choosing a career on that basis is a person I can get behind.
nickyandthefuture:
Man that is not how you make spaghetti. Ya'll eating pasta and bugs off your floor. Ya'll gross.
LittleKey:
This thread confuses and scares me.
Lunchbox:
I wonder how you count out that many ladybugs?
calenlass:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 02 Jul 2009, 17:48 ---
--- Quote from: Inlander on 02 Jul 2009, 06:49 ---For the time being this thread is about trying to figure out why they're called ladybirds or ladybugs when they're clearly neither a bird nor a bug, but a beetle.
Damn, and me 700 kilometres from my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
--- End quote ---
Apparently it comes from the phrase "our lady's bird", the red representing Mary's cloak and the seven spots representing her seven sorrows and virtues. Apparently the naming comes from the middle ages, which would account for it not being terribly accurate when it comes to classification since it's been mangled a lot over the years. Maybe someone just thought "our lady's beetle" just didn't sound right. Apparently entomologists refer to them as ladybird beetles so at least somebody's getting it right, and these are people for whom looking at pictures of bugs fucking is a legitimate workplace activity. Anyone choosing a career on that basis is a person I can get behind.
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We call them "ladybugs" because it probably started out as ladybird but someone pointed out along the way that they are not, in fact, birds, but are bugs, just like every other air-breathing creature with more than 4 legs. Spiders are bugs, centipedes are bugs, ants are bugs, ladybugs are bugs, etc.
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