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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, March 11, 2004, 7:06
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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