Having completed my latest mystery novel and needing something to read, I slid Washington Irving's Sketchbook off the top shelf. Of course you are all familiar with The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow though I can't say I had read much other by him. I turned to a segment called Christmas Eve, then read Christmas Day and am now reading The Christmas Dinner. I love his writing. He transports you back to Old English Christmas time in the Squire's manor house. I have picked up many a small tid bit on custom of the time or language used. Even Franz was not aware that if the effigy on a coffin showed the figure with legs crossed, it means they were in the Crusades. Anyhow, here is a quiz based on a section in the book. Irving makes the mistake of calling a group of peacocks a "flock". That is not correct.
#1 what do you call a group of peacocks?
#2 What do you call a group of doves or swallows?
#3 What do you call a group of quails?
#4 What do you call a group of deer, wrens or cranes?
#5 what do you call a group of foxes?
and lastly #6 what do you call a group of rooks?
Tomorrow I'll post the answers. This is a photo of Irving's house in New York.
5 comments:
I'll tell you what you can call a group of peacocks...
...a Peacongregation! I am so funny, yuk yuk yuk.
What is this mystery novel you speak of?
p.s. I would like to talk with you about editing.
Peacongregations! chuckle chuckle. Now really, you are in a English speaking country - why not see if any of those office folk know the answers?
Send me an e-mail and tell me about editing...
1 what do you call a group of peacocks?
Peafowl
#2 What do you call a group of doves or swallows?
No idea
#3 What do you call a group of quails?
Dinner.
#4 What do you call a group of deer, wrens or cranes?
Herd?
#5 what do you call a group of foxes?
Warren or coven?
and lastly #6 what do you call a group of rooks?
Birds.
I'm no good at animals, sorry.
this one will take me a while. I'll have to google everything because I'm a little on the uneducated side.
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