A cool guide collective Nouns for animal groups
A cool guide collective Nouns for animal groups
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I love you, English as my second language, but you cray cray and I ain't doing all of that.
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Yeah all of these can be replaced with "group" with no loss in specificity.
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Pretty much. There's no need to learn all these terms. When in doubt, just call the animal group a group. No one is going to care otherwise.
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I'm Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario in Canada
In English - a group of moose is just 'a group of moose' .... as far as I know, I've never heard of meese or mooses ... or else people just say two moose, three moose, four moose, etc.
In Ojibway/Cree - one moose is 'moose', because moose is an indigenous word .... a group of moose in my language is MOOSUK
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Just curious, is -uk just a general suffix to make anything plural, or this is just a one off thing here?
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Misread it as trump of baboons
Still works
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How could they leave out a Murder of Crows?
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No doubt! Only the best group name ever.
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We are all a rookery of crookery penguins on this blessed day.
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Who decides stuff like this? Who's like "hmm, yeah a group of owls is definitely a parliament"
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What's the collective noun for a group of politicians?
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I thought it was a congress of baboons, but apparently that was a joke that has been circulated for a while now that everyone just accepted as fact.
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A Parliament.
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- A sanatorium
- A circus
- A gaggle
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a flight of dragons
a wing of dragons
a doom of dragons
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I don't know if it is still in print but there is a book that is a collection of collective nouns. The book is called An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton.
It is the same James Lipton who hosts the Inside the Actors Studio.
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A pandemonium of parrots. 😂
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Why are ferrets a business? Just what are they up to?
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Crap, the thing was deleted. That's sad, it was nice
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"Hey look, it's a bunch of [insert animal here]" is so much simpler.
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