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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Hispanic ethnicity is not a race. There are white, black and Amerindian (asian) hispanics.
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    OK, not a race but an ethnic group. I have met hispanic people who have pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes as well as brown hispanics and black hispanics. Ricky Ricardo and Lucy both looked like white people. No 'splainin' to do there. South American hispanics are a mix of European and Indian.
     
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    If you weigh over 350 pounds you can eat for free at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.
     
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    According to Harvard University, The most common birthdate in America is September 16th. I missed it by 9 days.
     
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    A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
     
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    Are they produced by Smackers?
     
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    I just told that to the guy I'm having coffee with and he said terms like that are called terms of venery

    In linguistics, a collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole. For example, in the phrase "a pride of lions", pride is a collective noun.
    Most collective nouns in everyday speech for example, such as "group", are mundane and are not specific to a kind of object. For example, the terms "group of people", "group of dogs", and "group of ideas" are all correct uses. Others, especially words belonging to the large subset of collective nouns known as terms of venery (words for groups of animals), are specific to one kind of constituent object. For example, "pride" as a term of venery refers to lions, but not to dogs or cows.
     
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    Today, May 23, is World Turtle Day
     
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