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Bringing the search for the collective noun for roosters (C8) to an end where it began, the most popular suggestion coming in from Column 8 readers, by far, has been for “a theatre of roosters”.
Having started the search that has entertained Column 8 readers all week, Doug Pinch of Nimbin returns with more about his stated favourite: an ostentation of peacocks. “Nimbin has at least three feral ostentations wandering the main street.
To the delight of most of town (some shopkeepers don’t like peacock poop), these flamboyant creatures hang about our little CBD, often properly using the pedestrian crossing, and sleep in various trees at night. I can imagine future conspicuous traffic signs for the outskirts of Nimbin town saying, ‘Give Way to Ostentations’.”
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Doug Pinch, newsman for Nimbin FM102.3, has been searching for a collective noun for roosters: “Like a murder of crows, a parliament of owls and my favourite, an ostentation of peacocks. Google’s first entry reads: ‘Unfortunately, there is no special name for a collective of roosters’. I have asked for help from the local Nimbin Bush Theatre, which has been overrun with roosters and their cacophony. The street talk is that kind-hearted locals can’t possibly dispatch the male chooks that their hens hatch, so they drop them off in the theatre’s grounds. One suggestion why there is no collective noun for roosters is that they generally don’t live long enough to form a group. Except at Nimbin’s Bush Theatre.”
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