Shear Wit: The Origins of Wooly Words Unraveled

“A smile is the curve that sets everything straight” Phyllis Diller “MOB”: Today the word “mob” has us thinking of the Godfather movies and real life “mobsters” like Al Capone, but in the 1860’s New Zealanders referred to large groups of sheep as “mobs.” Lucky for sheep, we now refer to their groups as “flocks,” […]