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... and I've always called them earpieces, though the doc calls them temples.
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I've always called them legs, but my optician calls them sides.
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Thank heavens, Anna! I was beginning to think I was the only one who calls them earpieces.
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"Earpiece" up here in New England, too!
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my wife, a life-long Vermonter, calls them "bows". thank you very much. 
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My roommate, a lifelong myopic, also calls them "bows". And he's insistent that there's no other name for them ~ he'll probably start referring to y'all as my "crackhead internet friends who don't know a bow from a hole in the ground". I've found something he's linguistically fascist about! HOORAY!  Now I can bring this up every time he pronounces nuclear wrong.
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Another mid-westerner who has always called them bows and had no idea there was any other word that might be used for them chiming in.
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I've always found "the ear-thingy" works for me!
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I'm with you, CK. Until this thread, I don't think I'd ever called them anything, even though I wear glasses; maybe "that part that goes over your ear." Ashamed to admit it *never occurred to me there was a *name for it. Bad form for a would-be word person! 
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Etaoin, you come as close as anyone to our usage hereabouts. When anyone calls them anything, it's bows. 'Temple' is what we call the litle ears on the insides of the bows which, on some models, rest on your nose or, on other models, the little metal part sticking out of the inside of the bows which holds the pads which rest on the nose.
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