[thechat] dosh?

[Judah McAuley]

At 07:46 PM 1/31/2002 +0000, Martin expounded...

>On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 07:34  pm, Andrew Forsberg wrote:
>
>>>It's a standard UK term
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Martin
>>
>>Most of the NZ vocabulary originates from the UK, but this morning my
>>partner and I settled a long running debate re: daddy-long-legs --
>>are they spiders or insects? (insects have to have six legs?... lol)
>>:)
>
>Yeah, the UK one is a Crane Fly - 6 legs & wings.

In the US we usually call that a Crane Fly or Mosquito Eater.  I call it a
Tipulidae, but that's because I'm weird and I think it's a neat genus name.

Judah