{"id":1790,"date":"2003-09-30T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T08:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/01\/collective-nouns\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:14:50","slug":"collective-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/30\/collective-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13211,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macdevcenter.com\\\/pub\\\/a\\\/mac\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/30\\\/dock.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180219041139\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macdevcenter.com\\\/pub\\\/a\\\/mac\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/30\\\/dock.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:55:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 06:39:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just ran across the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2003\/09\/30\/dock.html\" title=\"O'Reilly Network: What's on your dock?\">a smug of Mac users<\/a>&#8220;. 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&#8217;ll play with creating other collective nouns, with the goal of being equally descriptive and clever if I can manage it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A giggle of girls. A scrape of skaters. A mope of goths.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giggle of girls. A scrape of skaters. A mope of goths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}