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

J Y S Czhang wrote at 2004-03-11 16:04:27 (EST)
 > In a message dated 2004:03:11 05:59:26 PM, markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:
 >
 > >On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:09:50AM +0000, Joe wrote:
 > >> You americans insist on calling everything that looks like an
 > >>insect a bug.  It's very silly ;-)
 > >
 > >In my usage, "bug" has never been limited to "insect".  Spiders,
 > >for instance, are not insects, but they are definitely bugs.  For
 > >my money, anything in phylum Arthropoda qualifies for bughood,
 > >including shrimp and lobster (sure, they're yummy, but they're
 > >still basically aquatic bugs).
 >
 >     Aquatic bugs aren't the only yummy bugs IIRC.

According to this page,
http://www.earthlife.net/insects/isopoda.html
there is a tradition of eating isopoda.  I'm not too sure about the
recipes here,
http://www.geocities.com/~gregmck/woodlice/recipes.htm
as the author apparently couldn't bring himself to eat them.

Holt's 1885 recipe for woodlouse sauce, from _Why Not Eat Insects?_ is
here: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/archive/41/2003/04/2/12934


Returning to the topic, personally I've called the ones that roll up
into neat little balls "pillbugs" and the ones that don't "woodlice",
but I'm not sure I'm actually following any established practice here.
(Looking on the web it looks like I might be, actually.  I also turn
up various local names; tiggy-hogs, parsons-pigs, sow-bugs,
grammer-sows (or grammerzows), chiggy-pigs, cheeselogs, slaters,
cud-worms.)  I'd also somehow formed the impression that they weren't
closely related, that while one sort was a crustacean the other was
some kind of myriapod, but that turns out not to be the case.

So, does no-one have a word for these things in their conlang?

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