{"id":3466,"date":"2009-08-25T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2009-08-25T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T08:00:15","slug":"a-tom-of-swifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3466","title":{"rendered":"A Tom of Swifties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/all-sorts.org\/popular\/card\">All Sorts:  A Linguistic Experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All Sorts is a collection of collective nouns that may or may not have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary. If you think that a charismatic collective is far superior to a dullard \u2018bunch\u2019 or \u2018flock\u2019 then this is the place for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It culls them from tweets, grabbing anything that is of the form &#8220;a <em>this<\/em> of <em>thats<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a theory of scientists<br \/>\na pratfall of clowns<br \/>\na radiation of physicists<br \/>\na melting pot of ukrainian nuclear physicists<br \/>\na rant of bloggers<br \/>\nan array of geeks <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think tensor of geeks is better, but the only way to submit suggestions is to tweet.  Alas, I don&#8217;t tweet.  So I leave it to someone else to fix this, or proffer <em>a test tube of chemists<\/em>, or <em>a thrust of geologists<\/em>, or whatnot.  (or a what of knots)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Sorts: A Linguistic Experiment All Sorts is a collection of collective nouns that may or may not have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary. If you think that a charismatic collective is far superior to a dullard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}