November 2011
3 posts
What's in a noun?
Recently I received this in my inbox, source unknown. Now, I am not going to put up all kinds of office-humour mails here (I do that in dutch at zegdanwat.nl). However, I do enjoy the intricasies of languages; hence this post.
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with: a Herd of cows a Flock of chickens...
