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Thread #73712   Message #2764240
Posted By: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
11-Nov-09 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: Collective nouns for folk music
Subject: RE: Collective nouns for folk music
"Oh dear. I'm afraid I have been sent by the British Union of Pedants to disqualify all the above examples. They are all Nouns of Assembly. A collective noun does not include a description of the elements which constitute the single element - put simply NO 'OF'. Hence Parliament is a collective noun,"

Oh heck! Does that mean I can't have a weird beard of shanty singers? Or a sandals of concertina players?   I suppose a sanctimoniousness of unaccompanied singers is out of the question too. Ah well.