There are a few other lists that cover similar ground: Obstinate Buffaloes, Prides, Not Prejudice, and Murders of Crows. I may have missed some.
might I humbly suggest turmoil of squid, and the newest one I've seen, file of pelicans?
With a little Googling I tracked down the source, which also offers 'a strut of hookers' and 'an embarrassment of basses'.
A ghostly a "consumption" of gothic heroines (also available in the equally ghostly variants a consumption of gothic heroines and consumption of gothic heroines) is turning up in the search-suggester; I wonder whether it belongs here...
I once wrote a poem about collective nouns -- http://www.saint-andre.com/poems/problem.html :-)
There are a few other lists that cover similar ground: Obstinate Buffaloes, Prides, Not Prejudice, and Murders of Crows. I may have missed some.
might I humbly suggest turmoil of squid, and the newest one I've seen, file of pelicans?
With a little Googling I tracked down the source, which also offers 'a strut of hookers' and 'an embarrassment of basses'.
A ghostly a "consumption" of gothic heroines (also available in the equally ghostly variants a consumption of gothic heroines and consumption of gothic heroines) is turning up in the search-suggester; I wonder whether it belongs here...
I once wrote a poem about collective nouns -- http://www.saint-andre.com/poems/problem.html :-)