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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, March 11, 2004, 19:44
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). ---------------------- ** 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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