Quick question - what is this called?

DaveH said:
The reason I asked, is woodlice are found in every continent except Antarctica, and everyone has a different name for them. At a talk I was at last night, they said there was a north south divide where in the south they were woodlice, in Scotland they are slaters and the north east of England is about 50/50 on what you call them.

I have never heard anyone call them a slater, and I was wondering if anyone here would say it.
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I bet you’re a hoot at parties.
 


Tuono said:
There are Sea Slaters on Roker pier if you look over the sides in summer, they look like massive woodlice.

Supposed to taste like shrimps.
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Got waterlice in my pond, alien looking buggers.
pinewaves1868 said:
What kind of living conditions do they prefer between dark & dry, dark & damp, light & damp, light & dry?
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They’re crustaceans and need some moisture, don’t take long to dry out and die. Usually like damp, dark areas with rotten wood.
 
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dangermows said:
Slaters :lol::lol:
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What the Jocks call them.

As an aside - the Jocks call crabs "partans" - funny lot the old Jockanese.
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Mirror in Aitchie's Ale House in Aberdeen, near to the Railway Station.
Bottom right is a woodlouse/slater with "S'later" on it. A local expression of "see you later".
They used to have T-shirts with the same slater on it a well.
 
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Butcher's Coat said:
What the Jocks call them.

As an aside - the Jocks call crabs "partans" - funny lot the old Jockanese.
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Mirror in Aitchie's Ale House in Aberdeen, near to the Railway Station.
Bottom right is a woodlouse/slater with "S'later" on it. A local expression of "see you later".
They used to have T-shirts with the same slater on it a well.
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Oh I love that.

Had a few friends round last night. Pure dead Glaswegian.

Showed them the picture..... Slater it was.
 
DaveH said:
My Kentish wife calls them Cheesy bugs too.

Interesting that a Northumbrian is the only reported English person calling them that. We share a fair bit of dialect with the Scotts (aye, canny, bairn etc), but apparently not Slater as was claimed on Monday night.
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Wikipedia reckons slater is a term used in Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. No mention of anywhere in England.

Lots of variations on the cheesy bug though - cheeselog, cheesy bobs, chiggy pig, chisel pig, chucky pig.
 
DaveH said:
My Kentish wife calls them Cheesy bugs too.

Interesting that a Northumbrian is the only reported English person calling them that. We share a fair bit of dialect with the Scotts (aye, canny, bairn etc), but apparently not Slater as was claimed on Monday night.
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Is canny not used differently in Scotland though? We use it to emphasise something, do Scots not use it instead of "can't" and spell it "cannae"?
 
Maverick Mackem said:
Is canny not used differently in Scotland though? We use it to emphasise something, do Scots not use it instead of "can't" and spell it "cannae"?
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I think some of the uses is the same. Though we use it to mean a few things, which is why I think it is a brilliant word.

It means a fair amount, "there is a canny bit of flooding in the garden after all this rain".
It means good, "That young lad looks like a canny player"
and it means cute, "Aww, doesn't that collie look canny?".
 

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