upennmanuscripts:

cedrwydden:

dragontatoes:

cedrwydden:

So you know how groups of animals sometimes have weird names, like a flamboyance of flamingos or a shrewdness of apes? What if we did that with academic disciplines too?

  • nebula of astronomers
  • fricative of linguists
  • swarm of entomologists
  • monad of philosophers
  • bestiary of medievalists
  • particle accelerator of physicists
  • fistfight of historians
  • dirt hole of archaeologists

The possibilities are endless…

clod of geologists

I said an eruption but this is so much better.

A quire of manuscript scholars.

a shelf of librarians

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