What do YOU call tiny river lobsters?

[Chickstarrs]

Crayfish. Seems the map is not big enough for me.

Explanation from "Writing Explained", just in case anyone was interested :

"Is it crayfish or crawfish? Crayfish and crawfish are two spellings of the same noun, which refers to a small freshwater crustacean. These animals are prized for their use as bait and as ingredients in several Southern-influenced dishes; otherwise, they are sometimes considered invasive species.

• Crayfish is the standard spelling outside the United States, and in academic or scientific contexts in American English.
• In most food-related contexts in American English, though, crawfish is acceptable, and even expected.

Since crawfish and New Orleans both contain the letter W, and are both related to Cajun food, you can use that letter as a mnemonic device to help you remember when crawfish is more appropriate.

To summarize, crayfish is standard. Crawfish is dialectical, but culturally appropriate when referencing some food items. Other variations of the word like crawdad or mudbug are reserved as dialectal speech."

 

[Everose]

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Crawfish.

Gosh I'm hungry now.
I can smell those through my phone screen

 

[sdm111]

Crayfish. Seems the map is not big enough for me.

Explanation from "Writing Explained", just in case anyone was interested :

"Is it crayfish or crawfish? Crayfish and crawfish are two spellings of the same noun, which refers to a small freshwater crustacean. These animals are prized for their use as bait and as ingredients in several Southern-influenced dishes; otherwise, they are sometimes considered invasive species.

• Crayfish is the standard spelling outside the United States, and in academic or scientific contexts in American English.
• In most food-related contexts in American English, though, crawfish is acceptable, and even expected.

Since crawfish and New Orleans both contain the letter W, and are both related to Cajun food, you can use that letter as a mnemonic device to help you remember when crawfish is more appropriate.

To summarize, crayfish is standard. Crawfish is dialectical, but culturally appropriate when referencing some food items. Other variations of the word like crawdad or mudbug are reserved as dialectal speech."

Crawdad and mudbug is reserved for tourists trying to sound cool and t-shirts.

 

[ColtHandorf]

No Saltie’s where I live. Australia has them but not in Sydney or out west where I was. At most I was at risk of being chomped by a platypus

I don't trust it. Everything in Australia wants to bite you, kill you, sting you, or eat you except for the Hemsworths (and they might bite), the Irwins (national treasures), and that tiny possum thing they thought was extinct but found it in a trash can.

Gosh I'm hungry now.
I can smell those through my phone screen

 

[ColtHandorf]

that tiny possum thing they thought was extinct but found it in a trash can.

And it wants to kill you, it is just too small.

 

[Dr Evy]

I grew up in IN and we always called them crawdads. Everyone here in MN calls them crayfish though.

 

[Anime2lover]

What do you call this? Please pick the term you use the most.
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Vote in the poll and comment down below. What general location are you, and what do people around you call them?

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Crayfish
Crawfish
Crawdad

Those are the terms our family uses for them.

 

[Beaker99]

Crawdads here in hillbilly country. They make good bait for fishing.

 

[HappyClucker7]

I kind of switch off between crayfish and crawfish.

 

[Painted Calls]

I kind of switch off between crayfish and crawfish.

I switch off between crawfish and crawdad.