Collective noun needed
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Jul 17 15:39:41 UTC 2012
On Jul 17, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Last week was "the running of the bulls" at Pamplona. Today Good
> Morning America showed a video of a rather sedate excursion of some
> cattle, including little 'uns, through a small town in England. What
> should that be called? (The consensus on GMA seemed to be "the
> strolling of the cows".)
>
Well, if it wasn't *too* sedate, "the boogieing of the bovines"?
LH
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