When did you learn the word "menagerie"?

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Serious question, when did you learn the word “menagerie”?

I know zoo, animal, collection from maybe primary school as an English As Second Language.

But “menagerie” as a word never encountered until this new Warrior deck.
I literally Googled it to learn it means : a collection of animals kept for exhibition.

Just curious, what’s your experience with this word?
If you are a native speaker, did you pick up this world early in your life? Like how early?
If you are an ESL, when did you learn it from where?

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I learned it at a Party with two…
Oh wait. Wrong word.
That story is for a different Forum…

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It’s literally the Curator’s voice line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV48ZH0vkkI

That was 15 years ago.

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I’m like, 98% sure I heard it while browsing the Warhammer 40k wiki.

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In Destiny 2 when they had the Menagerie event

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At some point when I was in public school. You know, back when they actually taught things. I feel like you’ve been cheated.

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At the very latest, I know had learned it by the time I saw Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie when I was in high school.

But I’m pretty sure I knew what a menagerie was quite a bit before that.

Edit: Did a little googling to figure out when exactly the production of The Glass Menagerie was. I saw it sometime during my freshman year of high school (1991-92).

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‘Never’, except Karazhan, if you don’t wanna venture outside this game.

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Confused. People don’t use that word in daily English?

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I meant that even if you’re not familiar with the word, e.g. English being not your first language (and it’s probably fine), you might have learned it a long time ago even within HS, as someone else has also noted, although I can’t be bothered to verify the details they provided.

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Having French as a second language where I live, it was as a boy I assume.

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Did you actually read their post?

The part where they learned English as a Second Language?

Or are you claiming you also learned it in your foreign language public school that taught it?

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… apparently not.

Look behind you! It’s the ghost of Richard Nixon!
cheeses it

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Perhaps, instead of mentioning reading skills or ‘that Texas education’ (yeah, yeah, from ‘Leaving Beirut’) once again, I’ll make an actual contribution to the topic.

Dunno if anyone noticed, but English isn’t my first language. I do recall, however, encountering this — admittedly not the most frequently used — word in practice in some silly cartoon, which I’ve been able to trace:

https://teentitans.fandom.com/wiki/Bunny_Raven..._or_...How_to_Make_A_Titananimal_Disappear/Transcript

Look for the word on the page, for example with your browser, and you’ll find it.

I suppose that’s as direct of an answer as I can give.

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Its not a common english word. I think most people probably had to look it up. I first heard about it from battlegrounds tbh.

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Me also. Learned English as a second language, had English courses from first grade.

Probably learned more English from US shows like Star Trek, G.I Joe, and Saved by the Bell.

I never heard Menagerie before Hearthstone.

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Shut up virgin. EEGWEGEWFWEFE

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I can’t find it online, but if I recall correctly, when I was a kid a read a fiction book about a family that had a lot of pets in their house and I think that word was in the title.

And yeah I read The Glass Menagerie in high school.

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I doubt I was a virgin the day you were born, youngling.

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Learned this word as a kid reading Willard Price’s Adventure series. I fully understand people not having encountered the word before though; it is not a commonly used word.

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