I've been following a thread on Twitter started by Henry Sotheran Ltd., a London book dealer, in which someone commented that a group of crows is called a murder of crows, so what would be the term for a group of booksellers?
I don't think anyone in Hay has ever come up with a term.
So: Murder of Crows
Parliament of Owls
Exaltation of Larks
..... of Booksellers?
(suggestions on the thread include a Ream, a Volume and a Binding, none of which sound quite right to me.)
3 comments:
Someone on Twitter has suggested a Quire, which I think is rather nice - the meanings being both a sheaf of paper and a choir, like the Village Quire locally.
Westwood Books in Sedburgh (once in Hay where Green Ink Booksellers is now) has suggested a Chapter of Booksellers.
Fustian - doesn't just mean the cloth- but booksellers do mostly wear it . Fustian language & secrecy- that's yer bookseller.
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