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Our "collective nouns for posties" search has gone off at a tangent, as we knew it would, courtesy of Wayne Davies, of Gordon, who writes: "While on collective nouns, the other night at barbershop rehearsal we inadvertently came up with the definitive term for a minority part of the chorus: 'A dearth of baritones'. Their low representation is possibly due to having to sing Jingle Bells upside down in the minor key while fighting the indelible memory of the melody that we all know so well." We are ...