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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 8 Jan 2015

    What's the deal with "exaltation of larks" & other twee collective nouns that no one actually uses? Am Her Dict Bloghttp://goo.gl/AcnKxF 

    3:48 PM - 8 Jan 2015
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      2. Howard G. Goldberg‏ @howardggoldberg 8 Jan 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        No one? Just yesterday I heard Moishe, a counterman at Katz's deli, cite "exaltation of larks" as he was slicing brisket. @sapinker

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      3. David Wolpe‏Verified account @RabbiWolpe 8 Jan 2015
        Replying to @howardggoldberg

        Howard, it's a 'pound' of brisket. @howardggoldberg @sapinker

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      4. Howard G. Goldberg‏ @howardggoldberg 8 Jan 2015
        Replying to @RabbiWolpe

        Oy, I misheard Katz's cutter. He said an "exaltation of lox." @RabbiWolpe @sapinker

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      1. boringfileclerk‏ @boringfileclerk 8 Jan 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Speak for yourself. I use these words all of the time in every day conversations!

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      1. Nomen Tantum‏ @nomentantum 15 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker I'll tell you what they are: damn candy-ass words. If you want #poetry listen to the weather report. On the 8s, wind, rain, snow.

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      1. Alan Davis: “I’ve said too much already.”‏ @AlanJDavis416 14 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker A startle of newscasters? A brunch of gripes?

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      1. Alan Davis: “I’ve said too much already.”‏ @AlanJDavis416 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker They are fun to make up. A hoax of statisticians. A vestibule of doorknobs. A chasm of collective nouns.

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      1. Terry Long‏ @claudiaquat 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker A murder of crows. A victim of crow ornithologists.

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      1. Chris Maslanka‏ @ChrisMaslanka 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker I get my most poetic ones from The Book of St Albans (1486). I see the 2015 reprint has just one collective : a bunch of anything.

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      1. Gordy Allan‏ @djgordy 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker I love English collective nouns - wonderfully poetic

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      1. Mark Vuletic‏ @mivuletic 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker Those words are more difficult to deal with than a rhumba of rattlesnakes.

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      1. Underdog‏ @rdbrewer4 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker Really, who decides that? Exaltation?

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      1. Jennifer Schuessler‏ @jennyschuessler 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker Hey, hands off our exultations!

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      1. Well, I never‏ @smile_of_decade 8 Jan 2015
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        @sapinker let me keep my murder of crows....

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