What do you call them ?

I call them pillbugs. My kids call them roly polies. (They learned the name in kindergarten.)
 
What?! My veracity being questioned?! The cheek of it! ;)

(And -- somewhat disappointingly -- it's a name they've already recorded. It's second on that list they've given, which suggests it's rather more widespread than I expected, and not just confined to the Leicester of my youth.)
 
When I was young (last century!) in Cumbria, we called them slaters, or slaiters - presumably because of the colour.
 
There seems to be a lot of discussion on this - here's some of the others that the researchers have found:
Chuggy pigs
Pea bugs
Carpenter`s bugs
Hardy backs
Wood mice
Cheesy bugs
Tanks
Chuckywigs
Chucky pigs
Chuckybacks
Granfer grigs
Rolly Pollys
Cheese logs
Wood pigs
Penny pigs
Pellet bugs
Sow pigs
Slaiters

Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group
 
Arkansas 70 years ago - pill bugs, sow bugs, roly polys.
 
I call them woodlice

I'm also confused why people keep calling them pigs, poor little things they are clearly more louse than pig!
 
All hail, Lord of Woodlice, the Woodlouse King! :p
HB should really recruit some heavy infantry...
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When I was young (last century!) in Cumbria, we called them slaters, or slaiters - presumably because of the colour.
I wondered if maybe it was because the segments looked a bit lit slate tiles on a roof :unsure:
 
Never thought of that, but sounds very plausible.(y)
 

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