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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #27597 - 04/28/01 05:57 AM collective nouns sarawhyler stranger Registered: 04/27/01 Posts: 11 Loc: North Yorkshire, UK Forgive me if this has been done before - I'm a very new recruit! For example, a charm of goldfinches, a pride of lions, an exaltation of larks and a gaggle of geese. Sara. Top #27598 - 04/28/01 06:21 AM Re: collective nouns Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 A very warm welcome, Sara, and congratulations on finding your way "below the fold" - these fora(?) are often sadly neglected. I think that this has been discussed before, but I don't care, as it gives me an excuse to repeat that my three favourites are, a lamentation of swans, a murder of crows, and an unkindness of ravens. Top #27599 - 04/30/01 08:18 AM Re: collective nouns Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773 A lick of chocolate p______. [gonna-get-this-into-the-lexicon-anyhow emoticon] Top #27600 - 04/30/01 03:11 PM Re: collective nouns wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear Sparteye: Why do they have to be chocolate? Would dill do? Top #27601 - 04/30/01 03:46 PM Re: collective nouns jimthedog enthusiast Registered: 02/24/01 Posts: 387 Loc: Hartsville, New York. Yeah, I usually associate lick with ice cream. jimthedog Top #27602 - 05/01/01 10:20 AM Re: collective nouns slovovoi newbie Registered: 05/01/01 Posts: 28 Loc: Saint Louis, MO, US A very good online resource for the various faunic(?) collectives is at: http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ I would lobby here (as I have elsewhere) for "a scrum of reporters," and "a skitch of bicycle messengers." Any other ideas? [thanks, all, for permitting me a new forum for my semi-mad ramblings] :-) Top #27603 - 05/01/01 12:19 PM Re: collective nouns Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773 the various faunic(?) collectives Hello, slovovoi. I believe that the term you are searching for is "terms of venery," so-called because they proliferated as the result of a game played by the British aristocracy a century or two ago, when hunting parties began creating collective nouns for the game animals they sought to slaughter. For some reason, the phrase was never simplified to "Venereal terms." Top #27604 - 05/01/01 02:33 PM Re: collective nouns slovovoi newbie Registered: 05/01/01 Posts: 28 Loc: Saint Louis, MO, US James Lipton, author of "An Exaltation of Larks" did indeed subtitle his book 'The Venereal Game.' Top #27605 - 05/02/01 02:52 PM Re: collective nouns tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass last summer, a "stranger" dropped by to ask if there was a collective for a group of butterflies. it was agreed that there didn't seem to be one extant, and several good suggestions were forthcoming -- but somewhat later I discussed this with Charlie Elster ("There's A Word For It!") and when I mentioned 'flutter' he proposed 'flutteration', which I thought was just right. too bad the stranger will never see it. (also last fall, there was a book published with the title "What Do You Call a Group of Butterflies? And Other Insects" by Emma Nathan. but I'm not going to order it just to see what she came up with... :) Top #27606 - 07/09/01 12:23 PM Re: collective nouns Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657 Been a while since anybody's posted here. 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