Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 14:37:38 EST

From: Mark Ingram MAINGR01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UKCC.UKY.EDU

Subject: Re: word geography



On Thu, 10 Nov 1994 13:08:48 EST Wayne Glowka said:

BEING FROM EASTERN KENTUCY I ALWAYS HEARD THE TERM DOODLEBUG REFER TO THE

LITTLE BROWN BUGS THAT LIVE UNDERGROUND.



There was trouble in my neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. We--children

of parents from Weimar, Texas--called the multiple-legged arthropod that

curled up when touched a doodlebug, but the kids next door from Kansas

called ant lions doodlebugs. They called our doodlebug a pill bug. There

Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College



The plot thickens. :-) We called pill bugs roley poleys (spel?). Or sow bugs.

I have a running debate with colleagues over what a June bug is. I say it's

big and green. Others claim it is the small brown bug on your screens at

night in the summer. I call those hardshell bugs. Any ideas folks?

Mark Ingram maingr01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ukcc.uky.edu

Milledgeville, GA 31061

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