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In my town there's a shop that sells rocks and crystals etc. They also sell sand dollars for $1. That's right, there's a 1:1 conversion rate between sand dollars and USD.
They probably never change that price either, so it's actually pinned to the dollar.
Animals that live up to their acronym:
- Goat
Change my mind
Animals that live up to their backronym:
- pig
Pink inquisitive grunter
Praying mantis had me rolling haha.
Animals that live up to their names ;
- Sea cucumber
- Woodpecker
- Babadook
Secretarybird: refuses to schedule my meetings
Nevermind, I found one
I'm sorry.. just... so sorry..
This leads me to one of my favourite dad jokes:
What do you call a fly without wings?
A walk
Can't wait to bust that one out when I see my nephew
This is just because English sucks, or English speaking people suck at naming things. Let me show you how it's done:
In Dutch:
Horseshoe crabs are called "dagger crabs", and look what it's dragging behind.
Cuttlefish are called "ink fish", and tadaa.
Jellyfish are "kwallen", which means roughly "annoying person", and they're pretty annoying.
Bald eagles are "American Eagles", you're welcome.
A sand dollar is called a "sea coin", because of where it lives and what it resembles, which is way more accurate.
And a fly is still a fly.
In Dutch, the Common Drone Fly is also called "Blinde Bij", which means "Blind Bee". This is because this animal is neither blind nor a bee and the Dutch are very good at naming things
Animals who do not live up to thier names Dutch edition.
Dagger Crabs - Don't have daggers and not crabs.
Ink Fish - Not actually fish.
Kwallen- Not actually a person.
American Eagles - Found all over Canada and upper Mexico.
Sea Coins - Can't actually be used as coins.
Canada and Mexico are still America so I‘d say it does live up to its name
Nobody refers to Canada or Mexico as America. North America is not America and American is exclusively used to refer to the US.
Found the US person.
No. Canadian.
Funny how Canadians don't want to be called "American", Mexicans don't want to be called "American", but everyone from outside the area INSISTS that it's an appropriate name for them. Even the commenter above called you a "US person", the only other time I've seen that was in legislation about immigration, never as a demonym.
Canada and Mexico are still part of the Americas.
American doesn't refer to North America in naming animals or its people. No one from Canada or Mexico call themselves American.
Animal that does not live up to its name:
cuttlefish - is not a fish
Animal that does live up to its name:
woodpecker
AWAIL (A while ago I learned) that butterflies are named that because they like to drink the fatty cream that form atop of fresh milk that's used to make butter.
This also goes for german. The Schmetter in Schmetterling has ethymological connections to Schmalz
Stop trying to make AWAIL happen. It's not going to happen.
I tried to. But, alas, to no awail
Peacocks have cocks. Peahens do not.
Also:
Spider (doesn't actually spy)
Peacocks have cocks. Peahens do not.
Peacocks don't have a pecker in their privates. Instead of a johnson, they have a cloaca. No willie.