An Item of Interest From My Email

[thegreatsquid]

"In late 2000, the internal newsletter of Statistics Canada ran two items about "terms of venery" (as opposed to terms of endearment, the latter sometimes leading to things venereal rather than things venerial) and challenged readers to find venerial terms for people and things at the national stats agency. Here are a few that people came up with

Comments

[ladysusan118]

An angst of twentysomethings? An indecision of twentysomethings?

[lizzabette]

A crisis of twentysomethings.

[thegreatsquid]

Winner!

The best I could come up with was a "detour."

[thegreatsquid]

I think the crows have already laid claim to this one. Even if they hadn’t I don’t see how the term applies to us.