In Kyoto, the capital of Japan around the time of the Edo period, there were as many as four different words for snail: dedemushi (ででむし), maimai (まいまい), katatsumuri (かたつむり), and tsuburi (つぶり).
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Coincidentally, often the same single word existed in both places (in this case tsuburi (つぶり)), despite the great distance between the regions.
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