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Forum: English Questions Jun 28th, 2007, 04:50 am
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Posted By HUE
Re: lightning bug or firefly

This is from Dictionary.com:

Although firefly remains the literary and formal word, lightning bug is the term used by the majority of Americans for the slow-moving flying insect that flashes in the...
Forum: English Questions Jun 28th, 2007, 12:23 am
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Posted By HUE
Re: lightning bug or firefly

I'm from Chicago, and we used both. I think that I probably would tend towards "lightning bug," though.

Mark, where are you from? Is it the midwest/south, or is it the deep south? You could...
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