Glitter Bats!!

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  when one dad gives a joke answer to “what are these called?” so hard that a regional dialect change happens

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  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That makes so much sense. Explains why the same bug within like 100 mi.² is called a Slater, a pill bug, a roly-poly, a potato bug, an armadillo bug…

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    • tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re called isopods.

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• swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

  Common names include:

  • armadillo bug
  • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
  • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
  • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
  • cheeselog (Reading, England)
  • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
  • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
  • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
  • chisel pig
  • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
  • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
  • fat pig (Ireland)
  • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
  • hog-louse
  • millipedus
  • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
  • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
  • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
  • potato bug
  • roll up bug
  • roly-poly
  • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
  • sow bug
  • woodbunter
  • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Roly poly or pill bugs!

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  • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.

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    • swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

      Why, I don’t know.

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  • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …powerhug!..

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  • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Potato bug ftw

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.

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  • Chump@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    rolly-poley gang rise up

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  • bubbalu@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol

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• fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains “bubblers”. They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn’t know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.

  Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.

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  • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Massachusetts (Boston) also calls them bubblers. Or, “bubblah’s”

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• tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just don’t call them extinct!

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The steamed hams of the insect world

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love looking at accent maps of the US, it’s interesting to see how batshit bad at the language some of my countrymen are

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nukular

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• chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my favorite is the tiny area in mississippi/alabama that says “the devil’s beating his wife” when there’s a sunshower.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My buddy is from South Carolina, and I distinctly remember the first time he said this. We were hanging out in his living room with some other friends, and it started to storm. He dropped the “devil’s beating his wife with a frying pan” line, and I swear it was a record scratch moment for everyone in the room. Every single person instantly stopped what they were doing, trying to process what he had just said.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My grandmother & great grandmother said this when I was a kid, but they were from Nebraska.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I heard that plenty in East Texas too.

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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just had to convince someone the real game of tapping people and running around the circle to grab their seat is called: Duck, Duck, Grey Duck

  And they straight up wouldn’t believe me. Who cares if it’s only the Minnesotans that say that. So do some Swedes!

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”

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  • Zidane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hell yeah I love regional pegging

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  bunny hug

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  • Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.

    Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.

    www.cbc.ca/…/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965

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    • cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      re: “no one knows why” i’ve heard it was just. department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn’t fully explain “why” but it’s at least a bit of an explanation.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you. I didn’t have that requirement.

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that…

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• grissino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Glitter BUTTS makes more sense

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yinz.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yinz love them lighning bugs.

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• teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is lovely. I really like the quirks of language.

  Makes me think of the jibberish that my dialect makes when simply pointing out a direction.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me moving to the South:

  “Red bugs.”

  “Chiggers?”

  “Yes. Red bugs.”

  “Are we talking about the same thing?!”

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just find me the place where ‘u’ is still relevant, like they’re using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won’t continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.

  Nevermind. They’re a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.

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• edg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Back where I come from we call mirrors ‘leaks’.

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• v_krishna@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Peenie wallie! 🇯🇲

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