Collective nouns

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I just ran across the phrase “a smug of Mac users“. Collective nouns can be a lot of fun to play with. A gaggle of geese. A murder of crows. And so on. Every so often I’ll play with creating other collective nouns, with the goal of being equally descriptive and clever if I can manage it…

A giggle of girls. A scrape of skaters. A mope of goths.

I’m sure I’ve come up with others, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head right now. Anyone have any more suggestions?

7 thoughts on “Collective nouns”

  1. A scooter of Shriners.

    Since the link goes to the “What in Your Dock?” article I have a question.

    Am I the only Mac user who’s OK with Apple Mail?

  2. I’m another … its not perfect but much better than Entourage…and I haven’t seen one which is nice enuf for me to switch…

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