Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>I really am surprised by the rarity of woodlouse.
>
>You americans insist on calling everything that looks like an insect a
>bug.  It's very silly ;-)
Uhhh, no we don't.

Bugs are usually anything that look like beetles (from what i've seen
people around me call them). A spider isn't a bug. Flies are flies,
although we mistake crane flies for big mosquitos. We do call the
Jerusalem cricket a bug, but that's because it looks less like a cricket
and more like a beetle should.

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