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July 17, 2007
A Scold of Jays
One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of crayons, a pad of paper, etc. There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals.
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
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Posted by Rob Kiser on July 17, 2007 at 08:37 PM
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Rob,
I'm not sure if this is how to get a message to you (couldn't find a regular email address, except one for Rob Kiser, VP of Financial Planning at CSU - didn't think that was you). Wow, Jennifer is growing up, or as much growing up as she can do with Dad. I have been retired for 3 years now, not a bad deal. Hope to hear from you.
Posted by: Mike Bergstedt on July 26, 2007 at 08:11 PM