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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