[78-L] Vitrolac: the spelling that would not die!

[DAVID BURNHAM]

You are right. Now where is the ketchup to go with the foot I just stuck 
in my mouth? And duck tape is just fine. And I still don't use it on my 
78 RPM records.

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Don't you mean catsup?

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Other way around! It was originally known as "DUCT tape" and was used to 
patch up
leaky joins in heating (et al) ducts. Since many cheaper and weaker versions 
were
sold, it gradually became "duck tape" (the unanswered question being "WHO
needs to tape a duck...and to what/whom...?!).

Steven C. Barr 

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I believe you're right, Steven, I remember years ago seeing heating pipes with 
this tape on the joins.  I think it's the same as "butterfly".  These creatures 
started out as "flutterby"s but people started getting clever and calling them 
butterflies, (like "tutterbarts" and "scutterbotch").  Somehow that name caught 
on and that's what we call them now.  However, flutterby is an obvious name for 
them.

db