Very poetic and lovely to hear.
Bob knows most of them and more importantly remembers them whereas I get them through osmosis... Bob's niece is close to being a newly minted teenager and ever so keen on knowing most collective nouns. All in the family, it seems.
Here are a few of my favourites, espied from this website on collective nouns.:
- An unkindness of ravens.
- A murder of crows.
- An intrusion of cockroaches.
- A flock of lice.
- A glide of flying fish.
- A rhumba of rattlesnakes.
- A babble of barbers.
- A shuffle of bureaucrats.
- A hastiness of cooks.
- A blackening of shoemakers.
- An eloquence of lawyers.
- An unhappiness of husbands.
- An imposition of in-laws.
- A promise of barmen.
- A goring of butchers.
- A disguising of tailors.
- A stand of flamingos.
- A surfeit of skunks.
Let me know if some of these made you smile as well...
Biggi
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