Attrition, I'd think
In my yout, I encountered this proper-word from -- a time before Muricans figured out, kicking & screaming, that the breakfast er break-(that 8 hour)-fast of pancakes, waffles, sausage, bacon, 3 eggs, fried potatoes etc. prior to a sedentary day of paper-shuffling: just might have something to do? with all those ailments.
(OK, for some.. this is still News.)
Still, with the 700K - 1M+ English words extant, I'd expect rasher of bacon to be among the outliers in '05.
(And only the esoteric might recall a murder of crows .. or maybe just the wags ;-)
Engrish - Use It or lose lots of it, all the way down to Bush-speak or Nintendo-speak, as one's means of grunting approval or dis.
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