Back where I come from we call mirrors ‘leaks’.
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)
Roly poly or pill bugs!
Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.
Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965
I’ve only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that…
Just them. We all think it’s super weird.
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.
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.
Also like the Joker, Saskatchewan is fictional
