Wow, you really do learn something new every day. 🙂 I’ve had this ‘thing’ for collective nouns ever since I met Mr K. Now anyone who knows a SnapFrozen Yank (and has lived with one as long as I have) would no doubt have noticed that they don’t seem to teach collective nouns in Canadian schools. For in our house there are BUNCHES….
BUNCHES of people
BUNCHES of money
BUNCHES of property
BUNCHES of cars
BUNCHES of clothes…
why BUNCHES of everything really 😐
And we all know that the only acceptable things to come in BUNCHES are grapes and bananas… and of course a “BUNCH of flowers” (could you hear the Eddie in that?) MR K just doesn’t have HEAPS, PILES, LOADS or LOTS of anything let alone any of those of really groovy collective nouns….
A smack of jellyfish
A flagellation of ferrets
A department of deer or a gong of elk
A heard of harlots
A drive or a stumble of dragons
A shrewdness of apes
A scourge of mosquitoes
A lust of prostitutes
A filth of Scots! I mean they’re fabulous why wouldn’t you use them 🙂
Collective Nouns A-H
Collective Nouns I-Z