{"id":11889,"date":"2017-09-24T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2017-09-24T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:52:34","slug":"word-of-the-day-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/24\/word-of-the-day-234\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Terms of venery<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Appears to be a synonym for <em>collective noun<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Collective nouns<\/strong> are nouns that refer to a collection or group of multiple people, animals, or things. However, even though collective nouns refer to multiple individuals, they still function as singular nouns in a sentence. This is because they still are technically referring to one thing: the group as a whole.<em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Term+of+Venery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Free Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/rhode-island\/statements\/2012\/jan\/02\/chain-email\/chain-e-mail-claims-when-baboons-congregate-its-ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Chain e-mail claims that when baboons congregate, it&#8217;s called a &#8216;congress&#8217;<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0C. Eugene Emery Jr., <em><strong>PolitiFact<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The names for collections of animals are called &#8220;terms of venery,&#8221; and Hargraves said the best reference source for them is the 1968 book &#8220;An Exaltation of Larks&#8221; by James Lipton, host of &#8220;Inside the Actors Studio.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terms of venery &#8211; Appears to be a synonym for collective noun: Collective nouns are nouns that refer to a collection or group of multiple people, animals, or things. However, even though collective nouns refer to multiple individuals, they still function as singular nouns in a sentence. This is because \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/24\/word-of-the-day-234\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11890,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}