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Names, naming and words
Trunk call
I don’t suppose there is any such thing as a trunk call these days, a trunk call was a long distance telephone call, as opposed to a local one. There must be some joke about elephants and trunk calls… an elephant’s trunk is actually his nose and upper lip… and no doubt there are jokes […]
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An escargatoire of snails
I wonder if other languages have as many collective nouns as English does – and sometimes there are several collective nouns for each group of whatever it is. For example what I might have called a clump of snails when I saw this pile of molluscs in the car park is actually an escargatoire of snails… […]
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I don’t often miss work…
…But sometimes I do!I miss the challenges…I miss the friends always willing to lend a hand… I don’t exactly miss some of the meaningless tasks I had to do, but having great work-mates made it all worthwhile!On so many occasions I hadn’t the least idea what I was doing……but I was always ready to do my best!!
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Lois Elsden 