...Inspired by annie in the "grumpy old (wo)man" thread....

I got to talking to a couple of teachers in one of the schools I teach in (yes, a peripatetic music teacher is nothing more than a transient with a music degree). We were discussing interesting collective nouns (oh! The fun we had.) and I came to the conclusion that we need new ones to better describe the properties and behaviour of these groups of people/objects/lifeforms. I invite you all to come up with your own collective nouns, but I'll start you off with the ones the teachers in question and I came up with, and find particularly apt:

A group of 15 year old girls is a "snide", and
A group of 15 year old boys is a "sweat".



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I still like "vacuum" for the former.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

A snatch of pick-pockets.
A geek of role-players.
A shuffle of octagenarians.

A confusion of calculus students.

A quantum of physicists.

A fume of chemists (or maybe an explosion).

a quire of writers?



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an account of bankers?

a bank of accountants?

If you can have a parliament of owls, what about a government of dodos?

an ache of OAPs?

A rampage of politicians

Or a stupor of celebreties



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A surfeit of presidential candidates

A void of Big Brother contestants

A faux of models

Annie, I think that the collective noun for bankers already exists: it is a wunch.

Perhaps a chatter of cinema-goers?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

a groan of puns

a bigger groan for a gross of puns

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

A fforum of ffordians?


Sorry, we did this a few weeks ago on the other board & came up with a boardello of fruitbats, among others...

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Or perhaps a dodoplex of ffans.

A combine of farmers?