From time to time ingenuity seeks to manufacture or discover new collective nouns. Genuine examples are: a wisp of snipe, a pride of lions, a brace of partridges, Not so genuine, goats. The offered a prize for the best collective nouns fitted to the following: Bathing belles, anglers, cyclists, hikers, rock-climbers, litter fends, railway porters, landladies, walters and page-boys, Ag the result of an examination of the entries the weekly itself, after awarding the prizes to the three com: peliters adjudged to have submitted the best lists, compiled a list of its own "on plebiscite lines"—owing to the remarkable way in which the competitors seemed to agree on, certain points, This lst read: an: exposure of bathing belles, a stretch of anglers, a wobble of cyclists, a trudge of hikers a rope of rock climbers, a scatter of litter fiends, a trundle of railway porters, a charge of landladies, a hover of waiters and a perk of page-boys. 'The winning Hist was even more ingenious: a smirk of bathing belles, a brag of anglers, huddle of cyclists, a pant of hikers, hank of rock-climbers, a muck of litter fiends, a trundle' of railway porters, a clutch of landladies, a sleek fof walters and a°chirp of page-boys. Shanghailanders have their own requirements—perhaps a sweat of pul-Jers, a geream of amahs, a squeeze of compradores, a block of rickshaws, 'a squeak of wheel-barrows, a squabble of lawyers, a dose of doctors, clash of dates, a taxi of dancers, and a swank of taipans might fil the bill.
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