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Canadian soldier
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English
Noun
en Ohio A mayfly.
en Canadian soldier
References
en 2000 Allan A. Metcalf How We Talk: American Regional English Today Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9780618043620 97 A number of words are distinctive to Ohio. A person others would call a hillbilly is in parts of Ohio a hilliken, and a railroad of small significance can be called a hoodlebug. In northern and eastern Ohio, the large short-lived insect others call a mayfly is known as a Canadian soldier. And only in Ohio is the syrup you put on ice cream sometimes called dope. Akron and Cleveland in northeastern Ohio speak of the devil's strip.
en Mayflies Megalopterans