Who Put The Butter In Butterfly?

Ranked #41 in Lateral Thinking

Cooties, doozies, and heebie-jeebies, finks and funks, namby-pamby and gobbledygook, mugwumps and muumuus, red herrings and white elephants, deep six and cloud nine--our language is filled with familiar words that, when one thinks about them, are downright peculiar. And if we look to English to make sense, why is it that we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

There's only one man to solve these and other riddles of our spoken tongue: David Feldman, who in his bestselling books Imponderables and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? established himself as the unchallenged...
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