Most of these are new to me:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/s ... tive-nouns
Anyone else wish to pile on with histories of how your favorites came about?
Some Collective Nouns
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Some Collective Nouns
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Re: Some Collective Nouns
The crow and nun collectives I've run into, but none of the others.
It does occur to me that we might pardonably borrow from the geese and call a large group of news or sportscasters a gaggle, since many of their commentd have that affect on me.
It does occur to me that we might pardonably borrow from the geese and call a large group of news or sportscasters a gaggle, since many of their commentd have that affect on me.
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