Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Collective Nouns That Aren't Real But Should Be

You've probably heard of a murder of crows and a pod of whales, but maybe you didn't know about a huddle of penguins or a congress of baboons. And unless you were playing along with #collectivenouns this week on Twitter, there are even more obscure group names you didn't know. Here's a recap with some favorites:

You might call them a "herd of hippos," but that's wrong:


In the wild you might see a "colony of rabbits," but under your couch...


There were some literary submissions:



And speaking of homonyms:


Writing is a lonely profession, but if you find yourself in a group:



And here are the group names for a few other professions (including one of my own contributions):






There were a couple of squees:



And of course zombie groups:



There were a lot more, of course, but it's still not an exhaustive list. What are some of your favorite collective nouns-- real or made up?

"An unproductivity of people who sit around thinking of collective nouns," for example.