You mean, lightning bugs? { Starting a regional dialect flame war }
Map showing which term (or both) are used across the United States:
https://homegrown.extension.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021...
Map showing which term (or both) are used across the United States:
https://homegrown.extension.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021...
Duck duck grey duck?. I normally strive for civility online, but I think you're lying and challenge you to a duel.
To be clear, I'm joking about the duel, but seriously: who the heck says "duck duck grey"?
Earlier today someone asked in another thread on this site if I had had too much coffee -- the REAL issue is that I'm out of weed so I can't ramp down from my flow state[-1], and it's been my experience in STEM that nothing is taboo if the context is romantic. (It really grinds my gears that there seem to be no limits to the fun some people will have at others' expense.[0])
Reminds me of when someone claimed I "press stalked" them when all I did was look up their address before going over to... uh... "date" them, because I wanted to check they weren't just luring me out of my safe house to kill me, and every search engine I tried turned up basically no hits on that phrasal verb[1].
The difference is I tend to do it all under one nym, while others hide their inanity[2].
Anyways, in all seriousness: is Duck Duck Grey real? Or some virtual snipe hunt[3] you made up like the type they'd send Boy Scouts like me on in the 2000s just before the organization went bankrupt? :-)
[-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Challenges_t...
[0] Die Schule war im Sommer so lange aus, der CFAA-Timer abgelaufen, und ich spreche immer noch kein Französisch :-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb
[2] Note the lack of an S if you want to pick apart my phrasing here, in this context. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inane#Italian
[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snipe_hunt#Noun
Edit: Still re-learning the formatting, and trying to look at cheat sheets less, edited to make the citations not be all on one line.
Lightning bugs in florida, fireflies in the north. At least in my experience.
There are also worms that glow.
What's the two species?
As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid.
Lighting bugs mostly in 412 as well
(Am I East Coast? Appalachian? Midwest? Mid atlantic? I've started just saying 412 rather than get hung up on semantics)
[1] The above is a very local reference to a very well known Archer meme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0
(I had a coauthor who'd make sweeping proclamations like "we do not use the word 'seminal paper' in this laboratory around the time they had to stop calling it ISIS on the show... due to the rise of ISIS, which, according to Wikipedia is " a Salafi jihadist group and former unrecognised proto-state"[1], but I'm not an expert on... natsec stuff.
Also, too much caffeine and no weed, so all I can do is amp up, then wait.
(I looked into MMJ, but the dispensaries are pretty unprofessional, it's why I think it should be recreational, they still act like cartel members.)