Here's a real poser for the group. I just got the
latest Fly Tyer magazine in the mail. One of the
Reader Mail letters concerned the derivation of the
word "biot". The gist of the letter is that the
writer's son-in-law, a biologist, asked him if the
word biot is a word coined by fly tyers, since it
isn't a word used to describe feathers in ornithology.
The writer searched Webster and other sites including
bird and biology references. He could only find the
word as it applies in flytying.
Now the question, does anyone on the list know the
origin of the word? If you do, could you cite the
reference and also send an email to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? I know with all the
resources on this list, someone must have an answer.
We're not looking for the definition of the word (a
short stiff feather from the leading edge of the
flight feathers of certain birds, esp. geese) but
where the word came from. BTW, I also checked
Merriam-Webster's and a couple of ornithology sites on
the web and came up with no hits on the word except
ones having to do specifically with flytying.
This ought to generate some emails!
-John
Oregon
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You move and change,I move and am the same;
You move and are gone, I move and remain.
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