The Elusive Butterfly: "This little discussion started with an inquiry by a group of mathematician friends at Santa Clara University. They noted the curious fact that the word for 'butterfly' was different for every European language, including those most closely related--such as Spanish and Portuguese. I later found that the 'butterfly problem' is one of those linguistic curiosities that has lurked at the edges of scholarship for some time without much in the way of a full research effort--the linguistic equivalent of the study of yawning by biomedical researchers."

Life is still full of mystery. Great yawping mystery.~Terry