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    Collective Nouns

     From Wikipedia… Collective term Collective phrase army An army of frogs[1] bale A bale of turtles[1] band A band of gorillas[1] bank A bank of swans[1] banner A banner of knights[2] barren A barren of mules[1][2] bask A bask of crocodiles[1] bed A bed of snakes[1] bench A bench of Bishops[3] bevy A bevy of quail[1] A bevy of swans[1] bind A bind of salmon[2] bloat A bloat of hippopotamuses[1] bouquet A bouquet of pheasants[1][2] building A building of rooks[2] business A business of flies[1][2] A business of ferrets[1][2] cast A cast of eagles[2] A cast of falcons[2] A cast of hawks[1][2] A cast of merlins[2] A cast of vultures[2]…

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    Google Ngram and Charts of Awesome

    So, over on Nathan Bransford’s blog the other day he had this thing up about Google Ngram (this fancy new tool from Google that searches a ton of books from the past 200 years) and it got me curious.  This graph in particular made me more cat-like: Vampires (blue) vs. Werewolves (red) vs. Zombies (green) From there I wanted to know if there was a difference for all these different things…seriously, I could go on all day and then through next year with all the different charts. Atlantis (blue) vs. El Dorado (Red)   Like (blue) vs. You Know (red) vs. Whatever (green)   Murder (blue) vs. Killer (red) vs.…