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Alan Bradwell wrote:
>i have been reading recently about what people call thier collection of
>ferrets and i was just wondering if 'business' is the real collective
>name for a group of ferrets? like a pride of lions, a murder of crowes
>and a school of fish.
As was stated a week ago here in the FML, (Issue 3728) a group of ferrets
is called a 'busyness of ferrets'. Busyness spelled with an 'i' is
acceptable (And the most common listing), but not the most correct.
(Most 'collective noun' lists, list 'bus[i]ness' but they are incorrect.
At one time I found a site that led me to believe that 'bus[y]ness' was
most correct, but for the life of me, I cannot find it again.)
More 'group names' (Collective nouns) can be found at:
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
http://www.vigay.com/cgi-bin/r?a=nouns
http://www.lizzie.net/html/collect.htm
http://lonestar.texas.net/~rferrell/collects2.html
Or..if you would like a commercial collection of Collective Nouns,
Here is Amazon's listing:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810321882/
avsearch-bkasin-20/002-7575352-6351263
For Our Ferrets
MC, The Rude One
(With Snorkle, Tuzigoot, Bancho, and Artemus. In spirit, Bubba,
Billy-Bob, and Garret)
[Posted in FML issue 3737]
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