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>Yes there is: A Reinyartnation® of AWADers......see? Nope, sorry. Given the fact, we are indeed Anything You Like Except Unanimous Raconteurs, the correct term for a group of us is that given to us by Dr. Charles Lutwedge Dodgson, in a stunningly prescient piece of writing. A glory of ayleurs.  for everybody except Mrs F.  For Mrs. F.
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Nope, sorryA Menagerie of Maxes... 
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>Menagerie of Maxes Curiously enough, what was the name of the boy who found himself king "Where the Wild Things Are"? Aksherly, my real pride in my earlier post came in coming up with a word for the previously "spurious" final letter in "ayleur". I am especially proud of having come up with a word for this letter, since, as Mrs. F. will testify, I never use it. This is in keeping with the long and proud history of non-rhoticism. Few people realise that only the non-rhotic were on board the Ark during the Great Flood.
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Faldage, you owe me for a ®
Nuh-uh! I was quoting mg. She's the one owes you. I wouldn't use that miserable excuse for a coinage as a typo.
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All these witty expressions for prostitutes but none for a group of johns. Anyone? A mens room of johns comes to mind but it's a bit unwieldy.
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Few people realise that only the non-rhotic were on board the Ark during the Great Flood. A-hem---beggin' your pardon, sir, but what was Noah's wife's name? She could have been an r person. And how about giraffes? And what was it they were on, hmm? I have to say congratulations on Raconteur, though--it is a sublime fit. But I still ain't one o' them nonreal-word things, and I shall "glory" anyone who tries to say I am!
Hey, I just thought of what would have been a good story to be written up in that Onion thingy, if it were still in existence: "Entire citizenry of U.S. brings class-action suit against the government of New Zealand, for condoning non-rhoticism: unfair handicap for populace".
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When within earshot of the (inevitably arrogant) mining engineers on a mine site we geologists used to refer to ourselves as a pride. Unfortunately they considered us a gaggle.
I remember when I was an AWAD newbie that I mentioned a "kine" of cattle; a word I'd struck in my teens. This refers to several herds of cattle; ie it is a collective collective noun. Are there any others that anybody is aware of? Armies (or impies) would fill the bill, but they're no fun.
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stalesey, you are my kine of guy!  What are impies, please?
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...a group of johns.
A lavvy?
A sink? Or a sinq?
A s#17load?
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Impi - a Zulu army
Impi(e?)s - plural
VERY handy for getting rid of those pesky I's in a game of scrabble - especially if you get the M on a triple letter!
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