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barnabas_truman) wrote2006-06-28 08:37 am
barnabas_truman) wrote2006-06-28 08:37 am
A people of persons?
Here are some amusing collective nouns I have discovered.
a drove of donkeys
a fluther of jellyfish
...alternatively: a flutter of jellyfish, a smack of jellyfish, or a smuck (past tense?) of jellyfish.
a clutter/cluster of spiders
a conspiracy/unkindness/murder of ravens (nasty buggers aren't they?)
a parliament/clamour of rooks
a horde/muster/storytelling of crows (my elderly neighbor also used to call them a "caucus of crows," which I like better)
a siege of herons (nice!)
a phalanx of storks
a wake of vultures
a tiding of magpies (perhaps a reference to folk augury, the magpie counting rhymes?)
a company/pandemonium of parrots
a lepe of leopards (strange that such a word should even exist; aren't leopards solitary in the wild?)
Got any others you'd like to share?
a drove of donkeys
a fluther of jellyfish
...alternatively: a flutter of jellyfish, a smack of jellyfish, or a smuck (past tense?) of jellyfish.
a clutter/cluster of spiders
a conspiracy/unkindness/murder of ravens (nasty buggers aren't they?)
a parliament/clamour of rooks
a horde/muster/storytelling of crows (my elderly neighbor also used to call them a "caucus of crows," which I like better)
a siege of herons (nice!)
a phalanx of storks
a wake of vultures
a tiding of magpies (perhaps a reference to folk augury, the magpie counting rhymes?)
a company/pandemonium of parrots
a lepe of leopards (strange that such a word should even exist; aren't leopards solitary in the wild?)
Got any others you'd like to share?
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