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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4919 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 25 of 46 26 December 2013 at 7:26am | IP Logged | |||||
I grew up calling them pill bugs, too. Come to think of it, they're pill bugs wherever I've lived in the US (upper midwest and the west coast). To me, a centipede is an entirely different thing. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4840 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 26 of 46 26 December 2013 at 8:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh, so they were talking about roly polies! Centipedes can also curl up... /vomit/ Edited by espejismo on 26 December 2013 at 8:41am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4648 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 27 of 46 26 December 2013 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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New York, Providence and Yonkers - I wonder what does it mean.
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| 40pancakes Newbie Australia Joined 5594 days ago 38 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 28 of 46 27 December 2013 at 12:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm going to mention it as this 'roly-poly' question has shown
up a few times (in those accent tag videos for example). None of those options are ones I would use! If it's referring to the same thing, I'm pretty sure those are what I call 'slaters'. Anyone else call them that? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4427 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 29 of 46 27 December 2013 at 6:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yep, slaters for me, must be an Australian thing.
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| svalbard Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4067 days ago 5 posts - 10 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 30 of 46 28 December 2013 at 12:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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Interesting, I think I use mostly British words but American pronunciation.
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5850 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 31 of 46 28 December 2013 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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The first time I got a technical problem, but now it was ok.
Most similar: Honolulu, Pembroke Pines, Miami / Hialeah Least similar: Des Moines, Toledo, Akron The first time, most similar were Honolulu and a couple of places in California: San Jose and another one nearby. The same small area is still red the second time. The technical problem the first time around prevented me from reading the least similar ones. I know I gave the same answers both times, but the questions were a bit different. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jake Day Newbie United States Joined 4818 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 32 of 46 28 December 2013 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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The most similar cities for me were Baltimore, MD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and Pembroke Pines, FL. Nowhere near where
I'm from. The reddest state for me, however, was New Mexico, where I'm from. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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