collective nouns

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Fri Feb 13 22:49:40 UTC 2009


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:41 -0400, Armin wrote:
>> On Friday 13 February 2009 13:32:10 Aldo Foot wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Sharpe, Sam J
>>>
>>> <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ian Malone wrote:
>>>>> 2009/2/12 Armin <feng.shaun at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Obviously the OP didn't understand that we Fedoraites (is that a
>>>>>>> word?)
>>>>>> it's actually 'Fedorian' I believe!
>>>>> I'd like it a little shorter and go for 'Fedoran'.
>>>> I've heard bigger is supposed to be better: Fedoristas
>>>>
>>>> (and it has that Spanish Bullfighter sound to it)
>>> I'll go with Fedorante --it sounds like a Don Quixote thing.
>>>
>>> ~af
>> Fedoranito sounds good too!
> 
> Fedorales?  Fedora's posse!
> 
> (Sorry, it's Friday afternoon...)

Ohmigawd, I think I started this!

I'm going to amend my initial attempt and go with "Fedorite".  Sounds
a bit like some of mineral.  "We dug down and found a large deposit of
fedorite..."
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