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GrandMaster posted:Haha i know someone that does this with salmon Samman Rushdie would just sound weird.
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credburn posted:The same people who pronounce "February" as "Feb-rary" and "Library" as "Lie-berry." I was saying credbu-urns
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GrandMaster posted:Haha i know someone that does this with salmon He said his name was Sal Bass, Jerry! “Sal! Bass!” You know, like “Sallllman?”
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credburn posted:The same people who pronounce "February" as "Feb-rary" and "Library" as "Lie-berry." 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Some southern US accents are at least partially non-rhotic, which is a relic of the accents of the Brits who settled there. Then they add Rs to words that don't have them, which I believe is called super-rhotic
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 I'm intrigued by the large portions of the nation that are mystified by roly bugs. Like I get if they don't occur there, but they're pretty popular in pop culture, surely they should have at least heard of them and recognize them by a description.
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Wood bugs
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Knormal posted:
Lookit the tiny island of blue holding out against the great red sea.
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Feb 19, 2024 06:28
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Oh you mean baldurs? These guys?
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Wait, if they are crustaceans does that mean we can convince posh people to eat them? I could make a fortune cleaning out my compost bin. Organic! Free range!
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Hyperlynx posted:Oh you mean baldurs? These guys? Think of how menacing he would be if he was called a roly poly
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Man, the bugs in the states where they're called roly polies have excellent PR teams. EDIT: And in the post below, "hog-louse" is absolutely the result of some kind of smear campaign. Crescent Wrench has a new favorite as of 06:40 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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OKay here's a kind of funny picture I'm into butchy boy, chiggy pig, or granny grey
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I've convinced several coworkers over the past 8 or so years that we call crayfish "pinch crickets" in the south.
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Knormal posted:
Is my state mostly white because I have heard all three terms at some point?
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It's probably because that's where you live
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Laughing at cheesy bobs. If u need 2 ask, ask!
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Where I am from, we call them roly poly bugs when we're super little. Then we call them potato bugs. I don't know why we call them potato bugs. Do they eat potatoes? Are they supposed to resemble potatoes? Nobody knows. credburn has a new favorite as of 06:56 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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credburn posted:Where I am from, we call them roly poly bugs when we're super little. Then we call them potato bugs. I don't know why we call them potato bugs. Do they eat potatoes? Are they supposed to resemble potatoes? Nobody knows. Where I’m from (Los Angeles) Jerusalem Crickets were always called Potato Bugs. They were creatures of fear and respect when you found one at 6 years old in the yard
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Knormal posted:
We know what pillbugs are in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Map is inaccurate
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PainterofCrap posted:We know what pillbugs are in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Map is inaccurate red + blue + green = white, hth here's some better maps: http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_74.html as you can see, "pill bug" is somewhat known p much everywhere but is only the most common usage in, apparently, a small portion of the ohio river valley
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Facebook Aunt posted:Just for fun I like to pronounce the U in menstruation. mens tru a tion Because the spell checker kept putting a red squiggly line under it whenever I spelled it the way I pronounced it. Elementary school never taught me about no silent U. Why is it there? To punctuate; it references the period.
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i always called them roly polys in the seattle area, but i guess that could be influenced by my mother being from california. pill bug and potato bug are also cromulent
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Knormal posted:
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Knormal posted:I'm intrigued by the large portions of the nation that are mystified by roly bugs. Like I get if they don't occur there, but they're pretty popular in pop culture, surely they should have at least heard of them and recognize them by a description. Those are just areas that feel strongly about the no snitchin' rule. Some stranger calls you up and asks "what do you call the little gray creature that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean that rolls up into a ball when you touch it" these are the folks who answer I ain't never herd of them. Whose asking? What business is it of yours?
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Pill bugs / potato bugs are the ones that don’t roll into a full ball. Roly Polies roll into a ball. They look the same and are closely related isopods. But I think that’s geographical distribution of different types of isopod reflected in different names.
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Yeah aren't there ones that do an armadillo and go into a ball and then ones that just pull a gymnast somersault? Either way they're friendly curious bugs and I'd answer a census regarding one. Mark me down, sir.
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ante posted:OKay here's a kind of funny picture theyre called bench-biters in danish
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ante posted:OKay here's a kind of funny picture Sorry, what? Is this in reference to wood lice?
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Knormal posted:
Jew's armadillo
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Barometer posted:Made me think of this. A more apropos example can be found here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlzgDVLtU6g&t=117s 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 10:38 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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What is happening in this picture? I've seen it before. edit: by which I mean, "what is the story behind this picture." I can see what's happening. edit 2: by which I mean "the story behind this gif."
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credburn posted:What is happening in this picture? I've seen it before. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/supa-hot-fire
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Listen, you degenerates, the rolly bugs are called slaters, for the very obvious and logical reason that uh hmm help me out here
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Some jerk in the 1800s decided so?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Just for fun I like to pronounce the U in menstruation. mens tru a tion Because the spell checker kept putting a red squiggly line under it whenever I spelled it the way I pronounced it. Elementary school never taught me about no silent U. Why is it there? I know this derail is going pages long and I haven’t got up to date with the thread yet, but! I have always pronounced the u in menstruation. I have a horrible combination kiwi/Australian/Canadian accent and I work with a bunch of UK and American people so maybe I’m not a great example, but the u has always been there. Do Americans just say “menstrate? Like how you’d say “substrate”? E: Where I grew up (Auckland region New Zealand), rolly-polly pill bugs were called slaters (slay-tahs, because non-rhotic). Shithouse Dave has a new favorite as of 12:15 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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credburn posted:The same people who pronounce "February" as "Feb-rary" and "Library" as "Lie-berry."  strawbrary
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