A Praepostery?
It is a weekend of several Provosts. The Provost of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Gothenburg is here this weekend so I’m off to Kelvingrove today being a tourguide.
Tomorrow, I’m hoping to meet the new Provost of St Paul’s Cathedral in Dundee. Thus, three Provosts are likely to meet in the same place at the same time, thus raising the inevitable question. What is the collective noun?
Your suggestions please.
Posted: January 19th, 2008 under Blog.
Tags: collective nouns, provosts
Comments: 12
Comment from chris
Time: 19 January 2008, 6:14 pm
A puff of Provosts? ( all manner of lovely connotations0
Comment from leo
Time: 19 January 2008, 9:59 pm
Surely ‘A Pride of Provosts’ ?
Comment from Michael
Time: 19 January 2008, 11:15 pm
If this was a Presbyterian gathering and you had an equal number of lay folk present, you could have a Presbytery meeting!
What Episcopalians holding a Presbytery meeting!!!
Comment from kelvin
Time: 20 January 2008, 12:28 am
Pride wins hands down so far.
Comment from chris
Time: 20 January 2008, 12:56 am
Awwww - I thought we were looking for unattributed collectives here!
Comment from Kimberly
Time: 20 January 2008, 2:01 pm
an afterthought: I suspect it’s a Puff of Precentors, a clatter of curates, a posse of priests, a riot of rectors, a drove a deacons, and a dash of Deans. (bishops, anyone?)
Comment from chris
Time: 20 January 2008, 6:49 pm
A bank of bishops? A bluster of bishops? a barney of bishops?
Comment from Elizabeth
Time: 20 January 2008, 7:46 pm
A Murder of Provosts?
Comment from kelvin
Time: 20 January 2008, 10:25 pm
A Bash of Bishops?
Comment from Rachel
Time: 21 January 2008, 10:08 pm
A provoke of Provosts?
Comment from Kennedy
Time: 19 January 2008, 5:55 pm
Is this the chap (not the bishop).
http://picasaweb.google.com/kennedy.fraser/Gothenburg/photo#5109277366543191826
If so, pass on my regards - we met in September when we were in Gothenburg.
If not, here’s some pics of the cathedral so that he doesn’t get homesick:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kennedy.fraser/Gothenburg/photo#5109275665736141778
http://picasaweb.google.com/kennedy.fraser/Gothenburg/photo#5109275768815356946
Kennedy