A book subtitled
The Venereal Game
is not normally one to be recommended in a family magazine. Bear with me, however. The book’s title,
An Exaltation of Larks
, should tell you that I’m not citing an X-rated volume from the Freudian sewers. Rather, the volume in question is a delightful celebration of imaginative collective nouns confected over the centuries by that dynamo of ingenuity, the English language.