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Tuesday 28 May 2013

Collective Nouns

A discussion has been happening on the TL listserv just recently about collective nouns - and what would be the best suggestion for a group of Librarians.  Below are some of the suggestions that have been made - what do you think? Personally, I like the idea of a community of librarians or a web of librarians.... however does anyone have any other suggestions?

A catalogue of
A web of
A gripe of
A genius of
A Dewey of
A Google of
A database of
A collaboration of
A community of
A full text of
A Boolean of
A shoosh of
A hush of
A quizzical of
A dust of
A coven of

For anyone that likes words - check out this site:
http://www.annexed.net/bthree/nouns.html

While we are talking words... A couple I came across a while ago are meant to describe the feeling you get when you enter a search into Google and find yourself faced with millions of pages to troll through.  How do the terms gazillionised and info-whelmed appeal to you?

Isn't language a wonderful thing?

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