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On 5/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Hmm a press of photographers.. My own mental links associate 'press' with reporters (non-photographically inclined) as well. I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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Heh while we're there we could also get 'a bracket of photographers', out of which we can tell at least one of them will get a good shot ;-) Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:51 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. On 5/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Hmm a press of photographers.. My own mental links associate 'press' with reporters (non-photographically inclined) as well. I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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Cotty wrote: I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. that's good but a lot of people wouldn't know the pronunciation. How does a lens of photographers sound? Tom Reese
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On 6/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. that's good but a lot of people wouldn't know the pronunciation. How does a lens of photographers sound? Tom Reese True. A stop? A sync? An aperture? I like focus. Or a meter? :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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Hi, I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. I'm sure the correct expression is a sweat of photographers. Or perhaps a whiff. -- Cheers, Bob
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Or even a battery. Ziggy -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 January 2004 17:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Hi, I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. I'm sure the correct expression is a sweat of photographers. Or perhaps a whiff. -- Cheers, Bob
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For those who can't afford the istD a cache of photographers For those who can afford the istD a cash of photographers For those who work with tv a crash of photographers
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Cotty wrote: I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. that's good but a lot of people wouldn't know the pronunciation. How does a lens of photographers sound? Well, it *sounds* OK, but somebody will want to spell it lense.
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hehe, I like the whiff one Bob! tan. - Original Message - From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:12 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Hi, I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. I'm sure the correct expression is a sweat of photographers. Or perhaps a whiff. -- Cheers, Bob
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ROFLMAO!!! tan. For those who can't afford the istD a cache of photographers For those who can afford the istD a cash of photographers For those who work with tv a crash of photographers
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Battery's excellent! Though I still quite like my 'bracket'.. :-) Ryan - Original Message - From: zoomshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:17 AM Subject: RE: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Or even a battery. Ziggy -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 January 2004 17:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Hi, I quite like: a bokeh of photographers. I'm sure the correct expression is a sweat of photographers. Or perhaps a whiff. -- Cheers, Bob
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Battery's excellent! Though I still quite like my 'bracket'.. :-) Ryan The only problem with bracket is that you would end up with some photographers overexposed, and I have seen few photographers that I would like to see that way. ;) Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
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I was thinking more like in the sea of flashes, everyone gets the shot, just one gets the cover. And not to say the overs and the unders aren't 'usable' :-) Ryan - Original Message - From: Butch Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Battery's excellent! Though I still quite like my 'bracket'.. :-) Ryan The only problem with bracket is that you would end up with some photographers overexposed, and I have seen few photographers that I would like to see that way. ;) Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
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Eiderduck is a kind of duck. :-) Traditionally, supplier of the softest filling you can get for your pillow; eiderdown. Nesting many places in Europe, including Norway, Scotland and Iceland. http://www.tringa.no/pages/gallerier/galleri-fugler/aerfugl.html There's a couple of North American relatives too, I think... Jostein - Pictures at: http://oksne.net - - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:36 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan I remember eider as a collective from years ago; I recall noticing that it was the same as a variety of duck. But -- the site I found with some of these interesting terms http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/animals/names.htm didn't have eider. The Concise Oxford didn't back me up, eider; so I can only assume that eider I remember it wrong, or was given wrong information Way Back When by some source. Probably a substandard textbook. :-)
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Uh... yeah. Well why not? :-) A friend of mine did a PhD on feeding behaviour in mallards. As it turned out, they flew a distance of 15 km from the nesting place to the center of the city where breadcrumbs were more plentiful...:-) Cheers, Jostein - Pictures at: http://oksne.net - - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Do they engage in garroulous carousing with the entertainment political elite down at the pond inbetween giving sellout performances, while basking in the glow of their stylish irreverence? Ryan - Original Message - From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:45 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein
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In Australia, an eiderdown IS a blanket that is stuffed with said filling. And in the typical, Australian way, we have shortened it to be doona... a word that I always thought was funny for some reason! ;-) tan. - Original Message - From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:00 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Eiderduck is a kind of duck. :-) Traditionally, supplier of the softest filling you can get for your pillow; eiderdown. Nesting many places in Europe, including Norway, Scotland and Iceland. http://www.tringa.no/pages/gallerier/galleri-fugler/aerfugl.html There's a couple of North American relatives too, I think... Jostein - Pictures at: http://oksne.net - - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:36 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan I remember eider as a collective from years ago; I recall noticing that it was the same as a variety of duck. But -- the site I found with some of these interesting terms http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/animals/names.htm didn't have eider. The Concise Oxford didn't back me up, eider; so I can only assume that eider I remember it wrong, or was given wrong information Way Back When by some source. Probably a substandard textbook. :-)
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- Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] In Australia, an eiderdown IS a blanket that is stuffed with said filling. And in the typical, Australian way, we have shortened it to be doona... a word that I always thought was funny for some reason! ;-) :-) Same word: dyne in norwegian. Which is in Norwegian also the word for dune as in sanddune... Languages are weired stuff...-) Jostein
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Gaggle works for me if they're on the ground, domestic or otherwise.. If they're in flight I think they're a bit more graceful than gaggle would attribute.. I just went to look up 'murder' on Merriam Webster Online (American English, but it's the best free online dictionary I've found, for my own purposes) as well as Longman's Dictionary of English Language Culture (I like this one, despite I'm an OED user), and neither backed us up on murder either. But I remember murder from a very prim and proper grammar book I had to get through as a kid, so I'm not going to stop using it.. A a murder of crows search on Yahoo shows up lots of entries too, a reasonable few seem to be literary resources as well. Dictionary.com shows 'a murder of crows' but I'm not too clear on the pedigree of that website. Also, something I thought was pretty neat.. Longman's second definition of gaggle was 'a group of noisy people who talk a lot' giving the example of a 'gaggle of schoolgirls'! All this while I thought it was just someone trying to be cute. Hmm a press of photographers.. My own mental links associate 'press' with reporters (non-photographically inclined) as well. These days one would be hard-pressed (no pun here) to find a fella with a notepad and his own camera trying to get the scoop. So.. nah.. I might say 'the press' on its own, but then again that'd have to be a reasonably specific type of photog (not my favourite type at that..) wouldn't it? Regards, Ryan PS. You lost me on the France thing.. what happened? - Original Message - From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:31 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Most of those on those sites do not look like correct collective terms, but ones someone made up to be cute. Interestingly, as far as I know a gaggle only proper for domesticated geese. Wild ones are simply a flock. Of course folks tend to use words rather indiscriminately at times. I withdrawn murder, as my dictionary does not defind that as proper term for a group of crows, as I had understood it was. My in tention was, of course, a pun on a happening in France a couple of years ago. Anyway how about a press of photographers. -- Ryan Lee wrote: Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein Eider. But I think Jostein's suggestion has merit. -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway.
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Ryan Lee wrote: PS. You lost me on the France thing.. what happened? There was a fatal car accident during an attempt to escape from a stampede of pursuing photographers... I'm sure you heard about it at the time. :-) S
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Of course, silly me. Thought graywolf was referring to an obscure personal experience in his earlier bohemian flaneur days. Cringing in embarrassment, Ryan - Original Message - From: Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:56 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Ryan Lee wrote: PS. You lost me on the France thing.. what happened? There was a fatal car accident during an attempt to escape from a stampede of pursuing photographers... I'm sure you heard about it at the time. :-) S
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A pun that is that obscure, would not be a pun. Ryan Lee wrote: Of course, silly me. Thought graywolf was referring to an obscure personal experience in his earlier bohemian flaneur days. Cringing in embarrassment, Ryan - Original Message - From: Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:56 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Ryan Lee wrote: PS. You lost me on the France thing.. what happened? There was a fatal car accident during an attempt to escape from a stampede of pursuing photographers... I'm sure you heard about it at the time. :-) S -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway.
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Good call. . . If you've ever been where a gaggle of geese figured you as a terratorial interloper, and tried to crowd you off their space, the analogy works. g keith whaley Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. :-) Ryan A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers - Gioia Diliberto
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I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. sheesh. Oh and a long time ago in Trafalgar Square when they were still selling birdseed for 25p, a friend of mine discovered he could recreate a certain Hitchcock movie by throwing birdseed at me. Not bad enough? One of those germ motherships saw some birdseed slip into my jackethood and I *swear* they've got a collective consciousness.. Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Good call. . . If you've ever been where a gaggle of geese figured you as a terratorial interloper, and tried to crowd you off their space, the analogy works. g keith whaley Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. :-) Ryan A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers - Gioia Diliberto
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Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. that isn't very alliterative though. How about phalanx of photogs or flock of photographers? Tom Reese
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Nup! I still like gaggle. If one's a stickler for that little bit of cadence, how bout a photogaggle of photographers? But then again, just 'photogaggle' would suffice wouldn't it? I think phalanx sounds too anatomical and flock sounds too Heidi.. Hmm.. a farm of photographers. No no! Gaggle! Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:23 PM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. that isn't very alliterative though. How about phalanx of photogs or flock of photographers? Tom Reese
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Tom Reese wrote: Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. that isn't very alliterative though. How about phalanx of photogs or flock of photographers? Tom Reese Needs to be more photo-oriented - hmmm a pose of photographers? a shutter of photographers? an emulsion (close to exaultation) of ...? a click of ...? you would think I had time on my hands... annsan annsan
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- Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein
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On Jan 4, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Needs to be more photo-oriented - hmmm a pose of photographers? How about a bunch of poor people? vbg Speaking of language and typos, I wrote a message about panning last night while I was falling asleep. I kept nodding off after every few words, and the resulting message was close to incomprehensible. I was too tired to proofread the result, and I knew it was in shambles, but since I don't embarrass easily, I hit the send butt anyway. Hey, I've been known to run out in the driveway for the newspaper in my skivvies g.
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On 4/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: So, they are geese? How about a pantheon of photographers (are they gods)? No, I got it a murder (crows) of paparazzi. GRIN Where I work, it's a focus of cameramen, a whinge of reporters, an assembly of editors, and the collective noun for soundmen is not repeatable here. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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graywolf said: So, they are geese? How about a pantheon of photographers (are they gods)? No, I got it a murder (crows) of paparazzi. GRIN DEFINITELY a pantheon of photographers, but only if it allows for godESSES too! lol tan.
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Take it from Keith who said, If you've ever been where a gaggle of geese figured you as a terratorial interloper, and tried to crowd you off their space, the analogy works. I think gaggle also works when paparazzi are trying to get a celebrity to turn their way. I'd quite liken it to hawnk hawnk hawnk hawnk HAWNK hawnk. Pantheon.. nah too snobby. Murder works too.. even if it's a bit ominous.. :-) Ryan - Original Message - From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:10 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. So, they are geese? How about a pantheon of photographers (are they gods)? No, I got it a murder (crows) of paparazzi. GRIN -- Ryan Lee wrote: Had the cricket on as background noise and I heard something I haven't heard in a while: gaggle of photographers. Gotta prefer it to mob or hoarde or swarm.. :-) Ryan A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers - Gioia Diliberto -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway.
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- Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein Eider. But I think Jostein's suggestion has merit.
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Do they engage in garroulous carousing with the entertainment political elite down at the pond inbetween giving sellout performances, while basking in the glow of their stylish irreverence? Ryan - Original Message - From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:45 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein
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Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein Eider. But I think Jostein's suggestion has merit.
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Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan I remember eider as a collective from years ago; I recall noticing that it was the same as a variety of duck. But -- the site I found with some of these interesting terms http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/animals/names.htm didn't have eider. The Concise Oxford didn't back me up, eider; so I can only assume that eider I remember it wrong, or was given wrong information Way Back When by some source. Probably a substandard textbook. :-)
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Ryan Lee wrote: Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? annsan confirms Yeah Btw _ I have in my hands a signed copy of AN EXALTATION OF LARKS by James Lipton. (the paper version, not hardbound...) Is that the same James Lipton that does the actors studio interviews? anyone know? annsan I just went to check and the one I was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on collective noun and ducks and got http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was a badelynge of ducks and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, an RSVP of egrets. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, Tom- a plague of photographers alliterative and apt! Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Re: OT: While we're on language, have a collective noun won't ya.. - Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had violent ducks believe my fingers held bread when it long ran out. I think I get the picture :-) But hmm.. I forgot what it is for ducks- it's not flock is it.. Quackpack? Jostein Eider. But I think Jostein's suggestion has merit.
