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28 March 2010

Sometimes I sits and thinks . . .


     . . . sometimes I just sits. Here is a blogger, Pranabk in Pune, India, who has been plugging away at this for nearly four years. He is a reader as well.

     And for poetry there's Trinath .

26 January 2010

From the bookshelves 68



     With an erudite introduction part of which reads:

The reader may have noticed that, until this moment, I have avoided giving a single, comprehensive term to these collective terms. That is because there isn't any. Oddly enough, the compilers of the numerous lists of these words, though obviously enthusiastic philologists, have never felt compelled to settle on a group term for them. The explorer in this field will find these words variouusly referred to as 'nouns of multitude', 'company terms', 'nouns of assemblage', 'collective nouns'*, 'group terms', and 'terms of venery'. This last seems to me best and most appropriate, and itself warrants some explanation. 

* I hold this to be a misnomer since, obviously, it can be confused with the strictly grammatical term referring to such words as 'majority'. The same may be said of 'nouns of multitude'.