This week, my two words of the week were remarkable and prohibitive. I used them more than any others.
To my delight the A Word A Day emails this week were themed on words describing different groups of animals. A bevy of larks and a skein of birds in flight who land are ambushed by a skulk of foxes while a sounder of wild boar look on.
Saturday, September 17
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My favourite's still a murder of crows.
You know what else crows come in? Parliaments. As in "a parliament of crows." I think I prefer parliament; maybe 'cause I liked it first.
For some reason my friends found the need to make up words for collections of annoying people last year, and used them for the rest of the year.
As I recall it was a shower of bastards (or a shower of wankers, but that's unappetizingly literal) and I believe a chattering of prats. I'm not sure why. Wish I could remember more now, but you get the idea.
Genius. Pure gold.
I believe it would be appropriate to find a name for a whole lot of blogs.
I propose 'confusion'...
A confusion of blogs.
A parliament of owls? Goddammit. I liked that one. Not as much as I like a crash of rhinos though.
hur hur... It's a `flange' of baboons. I concur, `confusion' is v. good.
And a wheeze of Canadian novelists. And a muttering of pots on the stove.
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