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From: brian fleming <>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 00:57:53 +0000
  Content preview:  Perhaps we should introduce a sport called 
Kookaburra-running,
    for picnic grounds and camping areas? See how far you can get with a 
chop-bone?
    Anthea Fleming On 2/08/2015 8:48 AM, Dave Torr wrote: > From the "World Wide
    Words" newsletter: > > Reports in British newspapers these past few days
   have featured the menace > from seagulls, particularly in Cornwall. Earlier
    this month a dog was killed > 
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33534181>
    > by a seagull in that county and a tortoise died > 
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33547126>
    after being > flipped over and pecked to death. The birds are brazen in 
grabbing
    food > from visitors and in doing so have caused injuries. Young people have
    taken > advantage by inventing a game called *gull running*. It’s said
   to have > started in Whitby but has since spread to other seaside towns. One
    person > holds food above their head — usually fish and chips — and runs
    a set > course. The winner is whoever can run the furthest without a seagull
    > grabbing the food. > > One correspondent to my newspaper was less 
concerned
    about the physical > injuries the birds can cause than about the purity of
    language. There are > no such things as seagulls, he argued. In the UK there
    are herring, great > black-backed, lesser black-backed, black-headed and
   common gulls and the > kittiwake, but something called a seagull doesn’t
    exist. A touch pedantic, > perhaps? We may be sure it won’t change his
   view to be told that English > has had *seagull* as a popular collective term
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