Collectives are wonderfully named and never fail to bring a
smile.
My friend Alex Tolstoy (yes, that is her name; yes, she is a
distant relative of Tolstoy, and she’s a wondrous painter whose
works have been shown nationally and can be seen at http://www.atolstoyart.com/ ) sent me
this. I couldn’t help but add a few.
These are aptly named:
a shrewdness of apes
a shrewdness of apes
a sounder of boars
a pounce of cats
a peep of chickens
a paddling of ducks
a memory of elephants
a bloat of hippopotamuses
a cackle of hyenas
a scold of jays
a leap of leopards
a mischief of mice
an ostentation of peacocks
an unkindness of ravens
a scurry of squirrels
a wisdom of wombats
a murder of crows
a crash or rhinoceroses
Here are some that SHOULD be real:
a muddle of confused people
a harrumph of malcontents
a galoot of idiots
a babble of acousticians
a
coot of codgers
an
appeal of onions
a cloud of depressives
a pocket of kleptomaniacs
a confusion of bipolars
a clutch of purse snatchers
a giggle of girls
a sack of quarterbacks
an ascent of stairs
a cloud of smokers
a howl of hounds
a riot of comedians
a stripe of tigers
an amity of friends
a taste of honeys
a roundness of pears
a delusion of addicts
a shiver of ice-cream
a dump of bad tastes
a whine of complainers
a moan of sufferers
a croak of frogs
a troop of trees
a huddle of bananas
a bloom of roses
a flight of 12-steppers
a crunch of apples
a nestle of cherries
a palette of painters
a trip of dopers
a chord of guitarists
a hoot of Annies
an orbit of eccentrics
a sniffle of allergies
Do you have a favorite that’s not listed?
