irresistible Arthur and Gary and everyone!
a pubful of poets
a flash of cyber-poets
an obvious remark of mobile phone users
an advertisement of bus travellers
a kindergarten of gameboy users
a trap of rappers
a drip of drug users
a pluke of politicians
a busload of train users
an embarrassment of editors
a flyleaf of booksellers
a coven of school dinner ladies
(you can do this the other way round and provide new groups for old
collectives)
no more time just now!
except that yesterday I saw a glitz of Elvises in Edinburgh, getting off a
bus
SallyE
on 4/3/03 9:09 am, arthur seeley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Collective nouns: A challenge.
>
> A murder of crows, a pitiousness of doves, a flange of baboons, an
> impertinence of beggars, these are just a few of the many wonderful
> collective nouns available to us, many of them witty and evocative and often
> poetry , but some a little worn and weary with use, clichéd one might say,
> e.g a herd of deer, a flock of sheep, a pride of lions. There are hundreds
> perhaps thousands out there and if you can Google you will find them in
> abundance by entering Œ Collective nouns¹ alternatively this link :
> http://biobase.dk/Embnetut/Personal/venereal.html
> will take you to one of many sites that provide comprehensive listings.
> How ever my challenge is to find new and alternatives to existing clichéd
> collective nouns and to find ones for groups that do not yet perhaps exist.
>
> If you take part, and I hope you will for it's a good exercise of your
> creativity and imagination make a note for us of the noun you are thinking
> of replacing.
> Some groups that might enjoy having a collective noun:
> Poets, Cyber-poets, Mobile phone users, bus travellers, Gameboy
> users, Rappers, drug users, politicians, train travellers, etc . Feel free
> to generate your own list.
> I¹ll start :
> A preen of poets, a hum of cyber poets a delay of train travellers, a sway
> of bus travellers, a hunch of Gameboy users, a gabble of politicians, a
> racket of rappers.
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