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.
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