...are often the same thing. However, I was always taught (or perhaps discovered) that "pennon" is the correct name for a triangular flag and "pennant" is an alternative and more widely used spelling. "Bunting" is any kind of hanging, stretched or suspended decoration on a string or cable and may include pennants. Pennants can be divided into a) the common triangular form b) tapering pennants where the pointed tip has been cut off, and c) swallow-tail pennants where the point is cut off leaving a double tip like the bird's forked tail. As we sat outside a coffee shop in Ledbury I pondered the triangular pennants above our heads, reflecting that they were definitely bunting, and that the deep blue sky really stole the impact of the blue triangles.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Nikon Z 5
