A Gaggle of Geese, A Pride of Lions, A School of Fish, and More Collective Animal Nouns
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A collective noun is “the name of a number (or collection) of people, animals, or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.” There are hundreds of these nouns of multitude, including those for animals, many of which are deeply embedded in our language despite being several hundred years old. You may refer to a gaggle of geese, a litter of puppies, a flock of ducks, a pride of lions, a A pack of wolves, or a murder of crows, but do you know whence they came? Join me today as we dive deep into these little bits of poetry.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food for Thought is brought to you by the listeners of this podcast and that means you. |
| 0:04.8 | Thank you for valuing this podcast and keeping it going by supporting it at patreon.com |
| 0:10.1 | slash Colleen Patrick Kudro. Today's topic is a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a school of fish, and more collective nouns for animals. be placed to explore, celebrate, and manifest, a life motivated and defined by unconditional |
| 0:36.0 | compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:38.4 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:41.5 | My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. |
| 0:47.0 | You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com, where you can get your free Joyful Vegan.com where you can get your free Joyful |
| 0:54.8 | Vegan starter guide when you join the mailing list and lots of other goodies as |
| 0:59.0 | well. Hi everybody I hope you're all doing well. Many of you know that I am very interested in language |
| 1:08.2 | particularly in the language we use to talk about non-human animals. I've done several podcast episodes on this |
| 1:16.9 | topic and if you go to the show notes for today's episode at joyful vegan.com I |
| 1:22.3 | include a list of those episodes that focus on |
| 1:25.7 | this topic such as compassionate cliches I don't eat fake meat and I am an |
| 1:31.3 | animal I've lectured a bit about this as well, |
| 1:34.0 | different aspects of this very broad and very fascinating topic |
| 1:38.0 | and much to my delight and hopefully to the delight of future readers |
| 1:42.0 | I'm working on a book called Animal Speak |
| 1:45.5 | What Our Idioms, Metaphores, Etymology's, and everyday expressions say |
| 1:50.2 | about our relationship with animals. |
| 1:53.6 | It's been wonderful to dive even deeper into this subject and even more wonderful to organize |
| 1:58.5 | these thoughts as part of a larger framework. |
| 2:01.2 | Having individual podcast episodes is one thing, but framing it all in the context of a single book is incredibly exciting. |
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