Saturday, February 16, 2008

Herd About It

Hey boys! We're in. Thank so much, Jon. I like the handle.

A word about "-gregations": Con-, se-, and ag- do of course all come from one root.

So also: gregarious (as we'd assumed) and category and allegory, and . . . agora (you get the prize, Jon!)

Their common ancestor is an Indo-European root "ger-, meaning "to gather" and apparently arising from a word for "herd" or "flock"

So, while it's not clear that new gregations (maybe that's a word worth a coin) need new pastors, they will surely move in new pastures.

Steve

1 comment:

jonrg said...

Steve,
I love the wordplay, and your new word -- gregations.

Where pastors become astors and bloom with a sweetness wasted on the desert air.

Like birds on the same wire, these gatherings in flocks of a feather.

Move over, Church Mouse, for the Church Bird.

Herd it on the grapevine.

I feel better now. No more puns come to mind.