Gaggle Or Skein ?
Sir, —In your account of the goose drive on Lake Ellesmere you Say the birds outclimbed the aircraft and that most of the gaggles of geese split up. As these birds were on the wing, I think they should have been called a “skein.” The second time you use the word gaggle I would say is right, as the geese were on the ground or water. I am not criticising, but only interested.—Yours, etc., S. C. HEARD. August 7, 1962. [The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines “gaggle” as "a flock (of geese) . . .” and “skein” as “a flight of wildfowl.”!
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29897, 10 August 1962, Page 3
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102Gaggle Or Skein ? Press, Volume CI, Issue 29897, 10 August 1962, Page 3
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