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Theme week! Collective nouns for animals. Which could fill whole semesters, but I'm picking words not otherwise used for other things.


cete - n., a company of badgers.


Or so the American Heritage Dictionary puts it. Possibly from Medieval Latin cetus, assembly, from Latin coetus, a coming together, variant of coitus. Nature is such the perv sometimes.

---L.

collective

Date: 2006-03-06 04:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flw.livejournal.com
I love collective nouns. "Murder" of crows. "Rafter" of turkeys. I always wonder about the origins. Some of them seem made up.

Re: collective

Date: 2006-03-07 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com
I think he means consciously made up in their present form, as opposed to borrowed or inherited.

---L.

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