Hordes do not... horde. They might hoard, but it's not the same thing. And it's possible to say that they whored, but it's really not the same thing.
Just some linguistic observations about the mysteries of nouns and verbs -- some thoughts thought today... while swirling around in the crowds/throngs/groups at the stores.
December 23, 2006
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Holiday "hordes" were not too bad today at Orange County's ritzy South Coast Plaza. I'm almost all done!
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Speaking of crowds, I noticed Brazil is flying people in air force jets to ease holiday traffic. Extreme measures, I guess. Awesome! [subscription wsj]
whored...throng...thong...we got get a dirty limerick outta this, along with Donner and Blitzen!
Don't you just want to make a YouTube video of giant packs of Visigoths storming a BestBuy in search of Playstation 3?
Groups gulped grouper, then grouped and gaped and groped the throngs's thongs, while the crowd crowed but were cowed into callow cowering by the regrouped group of gropers.
Sippican, you are The Batman of Althouse commenters; swoop in, kick ass, and leave the crooks all tied up for Gordon to haul off in the paddy wagon!
Mouth agape at the groups of groping groupers!
Flocks flock, too. So does one of my nephews, but that is another story.
Well, herds don't herd, but a swarm swarms; schools don't school, but a brood broods; a pack doesn't pack, but a flight takes flight.
Odd, that.
The legal term "sanction" has two (nearly) opposite meanings, both as a noun and a verb. So the phrase "sanctions sanction" has four possible meanings!
As Fitzgerald said, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." This is why lawyers are smarter than everyone else and why I decided many years ago that I didn't have what it took to be one.
What, no one has commented on the propensity of Weebles Wobbling and their ability to remain up right?
I myself have always been fascinated by the close association between Martial and Marital.
Yes, Ruth Ann; I think that paiar also fits to a "t".
and if you just add a "con", you get both congenial and congenital which spins the words in the z axis...
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