When I was a kid growing up in the Florida Panhandle we called these: "Skeeter Hawks".
This one was on my clothesline. I wonder what other people call them?
Posted on 04/26/2016 3:28:53 PM PDT by NYer
Linguistic ping!
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When I was a kid growing up in the Florida Panhandle we called these: "Skeeter Hawks".
This one was on my clothesline. I wonder what other people call them?
Crayfish.
Northern USA: "Crayfish"
Southern USA: "Crawdad"
Very Southern USA: "Crawdaddy"
So Far Back In The Swamp You Can Hear Ceegar-box Banjos, Bwah: "Crawlpappy"
Nevada: (We don't have those here.)
The ones with blue markings were always called Snake Doctors where I grew up. They always seemed to be flying around in marshy, wet places where snakes were likely to be found, which I assume is where the name came from.
Crawfish or crawdad, heard them both. Never crayfish.
We call them crawfish too. Always have.
they should have added “wooder fountain”, they’d have picked me right out right away
Evidently the bicycle is the crazy uncle of forensic linguists.
Here is my favorite
Do you pronounce “water” differently, if you’re not talking about a water fountain?
I need to find the male version.
In parts of Wisconsin if you ask for a water fountain (meaning a place where one gets a drink) most people will send you to a water fountain like those in a park with statues and such. In Wisconsin I’ve found Bubbler is where one gets a drink of water.(Or it was years ago when I spent many summers there.)
Ping
Interesting, I took that survey and it said my most likely location was Aurora, Chicago, or Detroit. I am from Chicago, but went to school in Aurora for a year. I think it guessed Detroit based on a single question, I said the night before Halloween was “Devil’s night”, but nobody around here actually calls it Devil’s night, I just knew that name from horror movies I think :)
Hmm, we’d probably call that a “dragonfly”, but the dragonflies we have around here do not quite look like that, they are almost all green and a bit sturdier. However, the only bugs we have that resemble that are dragonflies or mayflies, and that is definitely not a mayfly, so I’d have to say “dragonfly”.
Crawfish.... my buddy used to wade in the Chicago river catching those in the summertime and then sell em to the fish market for beer money :)
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