Appendix talk:Glossary of collective nouns by collective term
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Eugeneccampbell
Correct typo: "trembling of finches"
This page is a great work of fiction! So many of these amusing collective nouns are clearly made up. --194.255.43.134 16:30, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Yes. It's one of several such pages that we don't really bother about much. SemperBlotto (talk) 16:35, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- "flange of baboons" seems particularly implausible to me. list could do with some cleanup. -- 109.77.164.140 19:41, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
- There are also plenty of terms here that are not collective nouns but "containers" of some kind, e.g. "anthology of poems", "bed of flowers". Equinox ◑ 22:44, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Here's a suggested addition: a stringer of fish (after they have been caught and strung on a stringer) Eugeneccampbell (talk) 02:25, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Shouldn't the collective noun for caterpillar be a parade, rather than an army? They seem really gentle.
- Flurry of snow