My gurdy is certainly a Growling-Go-Round, in both Hungarian and English! heh
And furthermore, I am certainly a Cranker Sore... though with burgeoning Campho-phenique technique....
(Argh. I know, it's horrible.)
Regarding Judith's Tshirt - <<Or "Gertie Cranker's Spinning Society and Anti-Terrorism Collective"
(a t-shirt, maybe?)
(a t-shirt, maybe?)
- I would buy this shirt in a heartbeat. : )
Best wishes,
Lara
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From: Cecilia Patko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 dont 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: hordul and gordul.
By the w ay, I have been thinking of a good name for a HG society just yesterday. If it was Hungarian, itd be nice to abbreviate: HUHUGU or even better HUNHURGUR. And well, it wouldnt be called a society, instead Id 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
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> Question: Is there an appropriate collective noun for a group of HG players?
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> Thanks,
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> Dan
