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

Mark J. Reed wrote:


> Also, I don't know how typical my all-encompassing definition of bughood
> is of American usage.  I suspect most of my fellow Americans** (pause for
> a moment to enjoy that phrase . . . nah, don't want the job even if I
> had a prayer of getting it) would not include lobster (a.k.a. the
> cockroach of the sea), for instance.
Definitely not-- "bugs" are not edible; lobsters & shrimp certainly are.
True, they do _look_ buggy.....but I don't think I'd want to encounter a
land-dwelling bug the size of your average lobster.  Eeeeeuw.

You may recall that my Kash recipe involving shrimp called them "pakivak
roçe" 'sea spiders'-- and elicited some perplexed comments from readers.

I'm familiar-- via that Cajun gent who used to cook on PBS-- with that
regional use of bug = crayfish (shrimp or prawn to the rest of us; I've
never understood the fine distinctions).
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** If _I_ were ever to have that job, I think I would introduce the
revolutionary "Ladies and gentlemen,..." back into American discourse.

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