Would-be collective nouns
Culled from Twitter, a list of collective nouns that may or may not be in the dictionary. Some favorites:
a conspiracy of theorists
an array of geeks
a melancholy of goths (more here)
a pratfall of clowns
an argument of lawyers
a tantrum of 2 year olds
a fondling of vicars
a meta of collective nouns
Update: And I’d completely forgotten about the perfection of a fixie of hipsters.
Update: An Exaltation of Larks is a book chock full of collective nouns written by James Lipton (yes, that James Lipton). (thx, david)
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