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Weiyang Luo
About the collective noun of key.
I know "chain"and"bunch"can be both used to collectivise keys .Do they mean the same thing?
And do they necessarily mean keys attached on a same ring?In other words if you have a handful of keys without a ring could you still call them a bunch (I think chain wouldn't hold in this case)?
a bit too nitpicky question,thank you in advance.
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1 Eyl 2014 16:02
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I've never heard of the collective noun 'chain' . There is such a thing as a key chain, but 'chain of keys' doesn't sound right.
'Bunch of keys' is possible, or otherwise we'd use the all-purpose collective 'set'. A set of keys would be all the keys you'd need for a particular property (front door, back door, garage etc). A bunch of keys seems bigger to me.
1 Eylül 2014
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