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Show The Caterpillar. If any schoolboy were nsked to give the derivation of "caterpillar'' he would Miy that it bad something o do with "cat." And ho would be right. Tbo common explanation of "caterpillar" "cater-pillar" Is that it Is tho old French "chatepelose," which means literally "hairy cat," and is very like tho English Eng-lish "plller," a plunderer, and "cator-plller" "cator-plller" was the regular spelling until the seventeenth century. Or. Murray's Mur-ray's dictionary suggests that tho word may have como straight from "cat" and "pillar." A Iximbard word for caterpillar Is "gatta" (eat), and a Swiss word "tenfclskatr." (devil's eat), while a "catkin" Is the vegetable Imitation Imi-tation of the caterpillar. |
