Girls Collective
Posted 9th June 2008 at 01:01 AM by RamblingRose
Girls – Collective
A sepia coloured cutting drifted out of a book today, as a bookshelf was being industriously unpacked by my 14 month old granddaughter.
The book once belonged to my gran – she was a great one for saving all sorts of interesting things in odd places!
It is an amusing anecdote about collective nouns and the author’s inability to find one for a group of girls.
She writes: Birds and beasts in companies, yes, I found them all. A murmuration of starlings, an exaltation of larks, a clowder of cats, a shrewdness of apes ……. And in an anthology I see a collection of lads is a blush of boys. Is a collection of lasses a pallor of girls? Surely not, it sounds too beatnik for words.
(From the above I presume that this item was written in the sixties?)
During the war, the article goes on to say, the rank and file used to call the War Correspondents – A Flush of W.C.s
May I suggest a Giggle of Girls? Any other ideas?
RamblingRose
A sepia coloured cutting drifted out of a book today, as a bookshelf was being industriously unpacked by my 14 month old granddaughter.
The book once belonged to my gran – she was a great one for saving all sorts of interesting things in odd places!
It is an amusing anecdote about collective nouns and the author’s inability to find one for a group of girls.
She writes: Birds and beasts in companies, yes, I found them all. A murmuration of starlings, an exaltation of larks, a clowder of cats, a shrewdness of apes ……. And in an anthology I see a collection of lads is a blush of boys. Is a collection of lasses a pallor of girls? Surely not, it sounds too beatnik for words.
(From the above I presume that this item was written in the sixties?)
During the war, the article goes on to say, the rank and file used to call the War Correspondents – A Flush of W.C.s
May I suggest a Giggle of Girls? Any other ideas?
RamblingRose
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