The Dialect meme everyone has done

[chainmailmaiden]

I've used the version with the extra question as seen on the_marquis's journal.

Comments

[bunn]

Nobody doing this meme has mentioned that as well as not being insects, only some species of woodlice curl up.

I think my mother has mentioned that woodlice in Essex when she was a child curled up, but personally I have never actually encountered a woodlouse that does this, so I think they must be an Eastern phenomenon.

[chainmailmaiden]

I think all the ones I've encountered curl up, but I haven't seen any at all for a long time. When we had to get the house treated for fleas after we moved in, the stuff they used killed off all the creepy crawlies and even now over 2 years on, we only see the occasional spider.

[bunn]

Actually, now I think about it, I seem to remember encountering curly ones in Oxford and wondering at this strange ability!

The devon ones just hunker down in a grumpy manner or run away.

[the_marquis]

Susssex ones and Black Country ones do too.

[the_marquis]

Ah yes veranda! Never had one in the true sense but mum occasionally used it to refer to the concrete bit of garden by the house - that was never a patio as it was two beds of concrete not stone slabs.

[chainmailmaiden]

Mmm, I wouldn't tend to call concrete a patio either. That's what we had in N'cle when I was growing up. Mum always wanted to pave it so she could have a patio :-)