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

Estel Telcontar wrote:

>The Harvard Dialect Survey included this as one of its items:
>http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_74.html
>
>They don't include woodbug as one of their options.  Based on some
>messing around on Google, I'm beginning to suspect that woodbug is a
>specially British Columbian word for it.
>
>

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 ;-)

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