RSS feedSpeaking of life defining moments, I’m always amazed at what you can find on the web, and I’ve been using the damn thing since the textual Mosaic and Cello days, so I should really have gotten over it by now. Anyway, a few posts ago I spoke about collective asses as a support mechanism for understanding Microsoft Word complexity. Well not exactly, but it’s an amusing paraphrasing so I’ll stick with it. So I got to thinking about what the collective noun was for asses. Pace is apparently the collective noun for asses. A pace of asses. A pace of course is the distance of an asses stride, so somehow I assume it was adapted from there.
Strangely enough, while looking for the history of pace as a collective noun, I stumbled across Matthew Hunt’s site, where I guess his supposedly unfortunate sounding name has lead him to a fair amount of research into the singular noun for bray.
Hmm… what’s the collective noun for paraphrase?