I thought some people may appreciate the following story. This tale is said to come from the Plains States in the USA, though it could just as easily have come from Europe.

Back in the 1960s, the bus company Greyhound was expanding their North American services and was trying to advertise in as many small towns and villages as possible. At one ( Read more... )

... this is what I, and other “humid beings”, dislike about summer.


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As I've noted in my “User Info” page, one of my hobbies is “Linguistics”, or the odd features that make human languages such as English tick.

The topic I'm thinking of today is one of the more peculiar (and illogical) features of English: collective nouns. To the best of my knowledge, such a feature is rare (but not totally unknown) in other ( Read more... )