Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 13, 2004, 3:36 |
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Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>Anything from a snail to a millipede, to a
>grasshopper, to a tick, to an earthworm, to a fly, to
>a bee, to a scorpion can be a bug. Even a spider
>*can* be. Bug is a very general term for me. It
>includes any non-reptilian creepy-crawly thing.
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>Adam
Well i personally find that usage odd. But that's just me. I think as a
child i called everything a bug, but after getting corrected i only
usually call beetles bugs (or at least beetle-like insects).
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