I must confess I bloody hate (big)spiders which means they're safe in my house as I wont go anywhere near them to shoo them off I just hide in another room. bleh. one last night was about an inch wide including it's leg span and kept hopping everywhere… *cries* why wont they just leave me alone.
The Latins they wrote everyting in Italics are just names?
Just names, it was such a long job naming all the living things that their hands got sore from writing (no compters in them days you see) and so the writing went all wobbly and it just kind of caught on from there.