"RicodJour" wrote:


TWS wrote:
Can anyone give me the reason a 'frog' is called a frog?

Because it looks like a frog sitting on its haunches.

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/images/leopfrog.gif

R



More likely to have come from railroad terminology. See about halfway down
for 'frog'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch