Cyclops
What do you call a group of Cyclops? Cyclopses? Cyclopi? I apologise for the banality of this. I would Twitter it but... I'll Twitter it.
Being the sad person I am I found this site and on it a group of pigs is listed as a doylt!
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
:-))
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Toni ... you have spelt Members of Parliament wrong .. naughty girl.
Hi Joanna - do you mean the Stinkies or the Grokes? =)
Haven't seen the Moomins in ages!
K
Ah, plurals and collective terms, what a wealth of possibilities...
Allan, scampi is a plural, the singular is scampo, and the plural of sheep is even more sheep. Also known as a leisure centre in some parts of the country.
Octopus? To be brutally correct and Ancient Greek on yer *rs*, the plural is ocotopodes. If you were sitting in one of those wonderful seafood noshing places in Greece and asked for ocotopi, though, they'd know what you meant. (It would still arive out of sequence and lukewarm, mind. And washed down with lashings and lashings of retsina.)
Collective terms are jolly tricky and occasionally brighten the day, such as a paddling of ducks, an exaltation of larks, a chattering of choughs or a company of actors, capitalists or widgeon.
Or, of course, a wunch of bankers.
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Thank you Mike ... wasn't too far out with octopus then !! You are a mine of information. Can't wait for my next interview ... wait till I chuck the Larks etc, at 'em ..
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Pole ... get thi' sen down " to the sea again .. to the lonely sea and the sky".
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and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
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Ah hah .... the signs of a decent education .....
Or perhaps Google! I did know it though but just had to refresh my memory :-))
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Google ? ... don't know that Poet.
Try ... " if I should die, think only this of me ... "
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"I tried to drink all 20 pints,
but dropped dead after three....."
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Annie .. some people will do anything to get out of paying for a round. Pound to a penny he's a Yorkshireman !!
A great improvement on the original Annie :-))
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Thank you, I thank you!! XXXX
Bi late this, but I THINK Octopus is is Octopodes, but I can't remember whether pluralalises the animal or the feet, in which case it would be tautological.
Sorry. It's been a froggit day.
No Keith - not tautologies - please! Bad memories of trying to study philosophy!
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