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In England, is the insect represented in DDL's avatar called a Daddy Long legs? In the USA, a daddy long legs is a type of spider. The avatar looks like a mosquito or mosquito hawk. Or am I just reading too much into an avatar?
If not, I wonder what other creatures, we have different names for???? A duck is typically a white or brown water fowl, an elephant is a big gray mammal.

Then there's the vernacular; we don't have "crisps" we have potato chips, an English chip is a french fry, a lift is a fork lift or type of shoe not an elevator, when you knock someone up, you don't call them, you have gotten them pregnant, etc.

Just practicing stream of consciousness.

AKA Crane fly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

Not sure if it is the same... but I think in North America that is the May Fly.... which looks like a giant mosquito

No... I just looked it up... not the same thing... I think they are probably crane flies here too... but I do know daddylonglegs are also spiders....

Isn't it a district in South London

Good to know.

Here's the American DDL
floridabugs.net/daddy_long_spd.html
Here's more about the crane fly aka mosquito hawk
http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/200...-new-everyday/

Autumn and Fall are pretty much interchangable (maybe 40:60) as is faucet/tap unless you are talking about a beer tap in which case it is never a faucett.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_longlegs
i knew about cranefly and spider but not the Harvestman !