RE: [HG] Collective Nouns

[Jacqueline Burrell]

Title: Re: [HG] Collective Nouns

Isn’t it a murder of crows…I’m sure my neighbour would think a murder of gurdies was true-or an indication of what he’d like to do.   From: owner-hg@hurdygurdy.com [mailto:owner-hg@hurdygurdy.com] On Behalf Of Cecilia Patko Sent: 13 September 2006 20:59 To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Subject: Re: [HG] Collective Nouns   Oh, I love playing with words, especially across languages! This is nothing to do with collective nouns, but I still wish you spoke Hungarian... When you pronounce ‘hurdy gurdy’ in English you sound vowels a bit like German “ö” in it; Hungarian has the same vowel too. Now, each parts of the word ‘hurdy gurdy’ rhymes with a Hungarian word: hurdy with the verb ‘hördül’, meaning “growls”; gurdy with the verb ‘gördül’, meaning “turns round”. Well, ‘tekerö’ means also ‘turn round a crank’, but I wonder why they don’t call the instrument ‘hördül- gördül’ in Hungarian:-). I hope your computers eat these unicode characters, if not, here are the same words with flying versions: ho”rdu”l and go”rdu”l. By the way, I have been thinking of a good name for a HG society just yesterday. If it was Hungarian, it’d be nice to abbreviate: HUHUGU or even better HUNHURGUR. And well, it wouldn’t be called a society, instead I’d call it Hungarian Hurdy Gurdy Heritage, so HUHUGUHE or HUNHURGURHER:-) Better stop it, it flows out of me in a particular state of end-of-the-day tiredness... Cecilia On 13/9/06 20:04, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ooh, great thread! Collective nouns for multiple hurdy-gurdies I have considered over the past 21 years: The aforementioned "hurd" The aforementioned "crank" A brace of hurdy-gurdies--makes sense if you're a builder, and I like the sound of it A blast of hurdy-gurdies--makes sense if you've ever heard MY gurdy A spin of hurdy-gurdies (& would a group of players be spinsters?) A gaggle of hurdy-gurdies (well, sometimes they squawk) A pack of hurdy-gurdies (dog reference) A howl of hurdy-gurdies Anna Seattle, WA  -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Question: Is there an appropriate collective noun for a group of HG  players? >   > Thanks, >   > Dan