Quote Originally Posted by Meat Puppet View Post
I never really understood why people call Flying Mullet “Mulley.” It has the same number of letters as Mullet, and the <i>y</i> key is actually slightly farther away from <i>e</i> than <i>t</i> is. Plus Mullet is a cooler word so... I don’t know. Mysterious ways and all that bother, I suppose.
It comes from the way we pronounce his name in the French manner, where the 't' at the end is silent, so it sounds like moo-lay. Over time this led to the change in spelling, as spellings often change.