Every country church minister (at the very least) is familiar with the phrase “On the outer Barcoo, where the churches are few, and men of religion are scanty” from C.J. Dennis’ poem A Bush Christening. This post on Ozwords looks at the how the river in Queensland gave its name to wider usages in the …
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Gathering interesting information is useful if you’re always on the lookout for illustrations. Today I Found Out has provided a lot of general knowledge information which I didn’t know. Here, for instance, is a post on the origin of the maritime terms ‘Port’ and ‘Starboard’. I’d always known of these terms but didn’t know how …
You can never know too many of these. 50 Collective Nouns from Mental Floss. The list is a little frustrating because some I know are correct, but others sound like they were made up on the spot. And they didn’t ever list a ‘committee of Presbyterians’.
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