Spyke
lemmy.zip

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

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fulcrummedreply
lemmy.world

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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lemmy.zip

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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lemmy.zip

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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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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lemmynsfw.com

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Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.

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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

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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cobwomsreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

re: "no one knows why" i've heard it was like 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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lemmy.world

I've heard so many explanations I'm pretty sure Saskatchewan is like the Joker, coming up with a different lie every time someone asks.

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Semjazareply
lemmynsfw.com

I've only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that...

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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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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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Me moving to the South:

"Red bugs."

"Chiggers?"

"Yes. Red bugs."

"Are we talking about the same thing?!"

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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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