New Artwork – Ian Rogers – a Jury of Owls
Another collective noun – today, a Jury of Owls. My regular list of collective nouns has no entries under “J” but by going down some online rabbitholes I came across a satirical dictionary from 1923 by Elbert Hubbard, “The Roycroft Dictionary and Book…
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New Artwork – Ian Rogers – a Hedge of Herons
Another collective noun – today, as promised, coming back to that skipped H – a Hedge of Herons. An interesting thing about collective nouns is that there are often a bunch of different ones for the same creature. You can say “a…
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New Artwork – Ian Rogers – an Implausibility of Gnus
Another collective noun – today, an Implausibility of Gnus. A bit out of order as I should have done H today, but I will circle back to H for the next installment. There is something improbable about the gnu, also known as…
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New Artwork – Ian Rogers – a Gatling of Woodpeckers
Another collective noun – today, a Gatling of Woodpeckers. I hadn’t really thought about it before but the sound of a woodpecker’s TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK does kind of sound like one of those old-fashioned hand-crank machine guns….
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New Artwork – Ian Rogers – a Fesnyng of Ferrets
Another collective noun – today, a Fesnyng of Ferrets. Although it is difficult to track down the strict etymology of the term and there are many conflicting sources, some consensus exists that it arose from a transcription error in Middle English of…
