What do you call wood lice?

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There was an article in The Times today talking about the different regional names for wood lice. It said that they call them Cheesy bugs in Surrey. Now I always thought that was a very North Kent name for them and it totally threw me that other places call them that. So What do you call them and where are you from?

Wood lice, Leeds

Wood lice 🤷🏽‍♀️. I had no idea there were other names for them! I’m questioning my entire existence now 😳.

Peabugs Sourh East

Wood louse/lice. South coast

Cheesy bugs (from my mum who is from Sussex)

Granny Greys. South Wales Valleys.

@FreezerBird

For some reason, names for woodlice seem to have survived in dialect when we've lost so many other words. Some dialect is incredibly place-specific.

Called them daddy gramfers growing up but in the next village they were grampy grovers. Just a couple of miles up the road (Somerset).

It's amazing isn't it? A lovely but of anthropology.

Slaters

This reminds me of that dialect quiz that was doing the rounds a while ago. It is really accurate at pinpointing where you come from, based on the language you use!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

Slaters - East Coast of Scotland

Slaters (Scottish Northern Isles)

Billy hard backs - oop north

Literally never ever heard them called anything other than woodlice. Midlands

Love threads like this!

Chucky Pigs, originally a Londoner but spent more then half my life in Gloucestershire.

Woodlice - North East

Wood lice (Merseyside / W Yorks), and literally never heard them called anything other than that apart from on threads like this!

Pea bugs - Devon

Moch Coed where I grew up in North Wales (means wood pig), but we called them wood lice too

Leather jackets - Lancashire

Rolly bugs/Roly poly bugs, woodlice and hardy backs.

I moved a lot between Midlands and south west.

Curly pigs. (Gloucestershire). Surprised nobody else has said that yet!

@FannagBeg

No-one else from the Isle of Man yet?!

I give you .... ....

Parson's Pigs

You beat me to it! 😂

@GiveMummyTheWhizzer

Eeery wigs.

I've no idea why. Oxfordshire roots.

Surely an eeery wig is an earwig.

Which is very different to a woodlouse???

Slaters - central Scotland

Peabugs - mid Kent