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Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. ... A collective of nouns (-suggested by Bruce Crichton, rainbow1@jax-inter.net-)
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Because people behave as both herd animals and solitary creatures, collective nouns can be either singular or plural, depending on context. In writing, this double status often causes agreement errors. How do you tell if a collective noun is singular or plural?
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Collective noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where "objects" can be people, animals, emotions, inanimate things, concepts, or other things. For example, in the phra...
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Includes sets of collective nouns for birds, mammals, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, objects and people. ... There are currently 317 Collective Nouns in my database...
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Some Collective Nouns: ... List of Collective Nouns by Collective Noun ... List of Collective Nouns by Nou...
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One of the many oddities of the English language is the multitude of different names given to collections or groups, be they beasts, birds, people or things. Many of these collective nouns are beautiful and evocative, even poetic.
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List of collective nouns by collective term A-K - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of collective nouns from A to K. USB A pod of USB's
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Plurals, Collective Nouns, Sounds, Gender and Offspring ... More Beastly Sites; USGS Northern Prairie Center; Paul Vigay's Collective Nouns; Birding @ About.com; Whilst Watching a Dissimulation of Birds (poem); OjoHeaven; Fun With Words: Collective Nouns; Hoardworks.com's Word Games;
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In this section is a pretty comprehensive list of collective terms for animals. Many will be familiar but others will be unheard of, deriving from 15th century witticisms or literary imagination, and some are simply archaic or erroneous. ... Ivan G. Sparkes, Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms (White Lion, 1975).
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