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Monday, April 06, 2009
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4 comments:
You are too good for them, and I hope your agreement stipulates fresh rose petals strewn in your path from the edge of campus to your office and back. A litter surely wouldn't be amiss.
But are you sure that "gaggle" is the best choice for a collective noun for deans? Sources on-line suggest "decanter/decorum," "muddle," "dither," and "delay" or "gripe." If none of those seems quite right, perhaps (for those other deans of course, not you) "sounder"?
A sounder of wild boars.
Learning this justifies everything that has gone before the acquisition of this fact. No pain, no gain.
You might enjoy this discussion of the relevant section of The Book of St. Albans, the earliest surviving English codification of collective terms of venery; the section on swine begins here. Michael Quinion has a good brief piece on collective nouns too.
The section on swine begins here: a phrase of infinite application.
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