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Uh, it is summat like venary - it's venery, from an old word for "hunting". Looks a lot like it'd come from the same root as venereal (from a different sort of hunting...), but it doesn't.
Best modern tome on the subject (terms of venery, not things venereal) is An Exaltation of Larks. Great stuff.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted collective nouns rdeib 04/29/02 08:23 PM Re: collective nouns Faldage 04/29/02 08:28 PM Re: collective nouns Hyla 04/29/02 09:26 PM Re: collective nouns Geoff 04/30/02 01:20 PM Re: collective nouns Bingley 05/01/02 12:57 AM Re: collective nouns Faldage 05/01/02 07:36 PM Re: collective nouns Faldage 04/30/02 01:31 PM Re: collective nouns Bridget 04/30/02 07:10 AM Re: collective nouns hev 04/30/02 12:07 AM Re: collective nouns wwh 04/30/02 12:51 AM Re: collective nouns Geoff 04/30/02 01:13 AM Warning: [blue] blue humor [/blue] wofahulicodoc 05/01/02 07:30 PM
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