Thanks Steven,
If you scroll down on page 2 of this thread I posted about the Whitcraft fly, you will see that I posted what I called a "Variant of the Whitcraft". It was basically the same fly, but I substituted different colored hackle.
I was told I had improperly used the term "variant" by Allan and did not want to start that again by explaining that when I say "a variant OF.......something" I believe it is appropriate to use variant in that context.

Here is the page of the previous discussion of the term "variant". You might scroll down to Allan's posting there.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...-Pattern/page2