Yes, we will vote. Any caver whether on one of these lists or not can
make suggestions until Wednesday, so you can pass this on to caver in
other states. I will post a ballot of suggested plural nouns for cavers
on this Thursday. Cavers can send their secret votes to me before the
following Sunday by personal email, and I will announce the results to
the lists on the following Tuesday. Suggestions should be brief, and
something easy to remember for cavers to start using the noun in their
conversations, emails and social media so that the public may eventually
adopt it as well, and maybe even get the term into dictionaries in a
few years.
Lee
"Gravity may be nature's weakest force, but it is still capable of
spaghettifying you." --lhs, 2021
On 4/23/2021 9:43 PM, Elizabeth Galbraith wrote:
I like formation or crawl of cavers very much or possibly
Speleothems. Are we going to get to vote, Lee?
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:29 PM 'Bianca della Vittoria' via
Southwestern Cavers of the National Speleological Society
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
how about a "crawl" of cavers ?
On Friday, April 23, 2021, 09:12:03 PM MDT, Lee H. Skinner
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks, John.
We now have a dozen creative entries (maybe more from Texas as I
just get the daily digest every morning):
Breakdown Katherine Arens
Caveat Penny Boston
Cavalcade Steve Peerman
Cascade George Veni
Clump Mimi Jasek
Clunk Jerry Atkinson
Column Lee Skinner
Descent Kathy Peerman
Formation John Cochran
Giggle Jerry Atkinson
Pack Mike Mansur
Stash Linda Starr
Lee
On 4/23/2021 8:48 PM, John Cochran wrote:
it is obviously a "formation" of cavers
cheers
John
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 6:50 PM Linda Starr <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Cavalcade is too hard to say, though I like the alliteration.
How about one syllable? It’s a bit too militaristic.
Linda Starr 😉
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:51 PM Steve Peerman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Lee,
In order to preserve the alliteration, how about a
“cavalcade” of cavers?
On Apr 23, 2021, at 5:34 PM, Lee H. Skinner
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What do you call a collection of cavers? There are
gaggles of geese, pods of whales and murders of crows.
What term would do justice to the special nature of
cavers? I once suggested a *column of cavers*, as cave
teams usually go single-file when traversing (especially
well protected) cave passages. Does anyone have a better
idea?
Lee Skinner
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