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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