>>I grew up in CA, and I can’t say I ever noticed any geographical preference for the name of those tiny fresh water lobsters. Crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, it’s all the same to me.
Same here. I grew up in Sacramento and Santa Rosa. We interchanged a lot of words for many things.
Santa Rosa? We lived there for a while, and Sebastopol for many years before that. I also graduated from UC Davis, so I know the Sacramento area, as well. What a happy place CA was when I was a child!
Despite the fact that growing up there left me unable to discuss fresh water lobsters with any consistency of terminology...