Tue 24 Feb 2004

  • Language: I found one mildly redeeming thing about Cyrus after spending a week cursing it. The authors decided that the collective noun for “cyrus imap servers” is “murder”, like crows. While they deserve all the confusion they get for choosing that particular term, it’s still pretty fun.

    I wonder if languages other than English have the same, bizzare set of collective nouns. For that matter, I wonder if there’s a word for a set of collective nouns.

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