Collective Nouns

[Corven]

A pomposity of professors

 

[meatloaf231]

Seriously? A hedge?

I edited it to make it more clear what I found on google and what I said.

 

[SmugFrog]

Gah! You beat me to it.

 

[meatloaf231]

Well, gamers should be measured in "couches"

A couch of gamers.

 

[jim_doki]

a Broke of musicians

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Apparently a group of whales (in addition to the usual "pod") can be called a gam.
And a group of whaling ships can also be called a gam.

An exaggeration of fisherman.

 

[Corven]

A bond of secret agents
A boo of surprises
A blaze of pyromaniacs
A falling of dominoes

hehe, this is fun.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

did you make those up?

 

[Corven]

I could say yes but I don't like to lie, so no I didn't.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

then those are crazy!

I wonder if bond came about before or after James Bond.

Unfortunately I don't know any more off the top of my head so here's some that I found on that interweb thing everyone seems to be talking about that I though were pretty odd.

A Nucleus of Physicists
A Number of Mathematicians
A Mission of monkeys
A Whiteness of swans

 

[Anarchemitis]

A parliament of owls

Dang, you stole my favorite implication of politics in nature.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

A parliament of owls

Dang, you stole my favorite implication of politics in nature.

Any time I tell someone that the correct term is a 'Parliament', they call BS. Such a shame - it's a brilliant term.

 

[Xhumed]

I wish I still had my copy of Schott's Original Miscellany, it had some good ones.

A Kiss of vampires. Though everyone seems to use Coven (which is witches) for some reason.

I've seen Parliament used for Rooks too (the birds, not the chess pieces.)

Also, wouldn't it be a clan of ninja?

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Also, wouldn't it be a clan of ninja?

Probably not, Clan would be an organised collection of Ninja but as far as I know there isn't a collective noun for Ninja at all.
So I'll go with PurpleRain's suggestion of "a mist of Ninja" and pretend that it's the correct term.

 

[Flunk]

Collective nouns are really a waste of time linguistically, we need to learn from the Japanese and ditch them entirely. (Japanese doesn't even have singular forms let alone this mess).

 

[Xhumed]

Also, wouldn't it be a clan of ninja?

Probably not, Clan would be an organised collection of Ninja but as far as I know there isn't a collective noun for Ninja at all.
So I'll go with PurpleRain's suggestion of "a mist of Ninja" and pretend that it's the correct term.

Apparently it's 'throng.' A throng of ninja.

A rabble of butterflies (I like that, it's rather charming.)
A leap of leopards.
A murmuration of starlings.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Collective nouns are really a waste of time linguistically, we need to learn from the Japanese and ditch them entirely. (Japanese doesn't even have singular forms let alone this mess).

How dare you sir. I'll have you know collective nouns are the height of linguisity!

You are a thicket of idiots (that is, if you were more than one person)

Here's some more my friend (I have friends) told me and I took the liberty of writing down, because for some reason I'm becomming osbessed with these things.

-A thirst of Irish
-A mob of Kangaroos (I've seen someone get kicked in the head by them, not pretty)
-A qwerty of keyboards (he might have been joking)
-A sack of kittens
-A montage of munters (apparently)
-A fleet of pigs
-A crash of rhinoceroses (spelling?)
-A disworship of Scots (apologies to any Scots)
-An Ugly of Walruses


edit: A throng eh? That doesn't sound anywhere near as awesome as a mist or hedge of Ninja...

 

[OuroborosChoked]

A smack of jellyfish...

Who doesn't like a good smack?

 

[The Iron Ninja]

I keep reading it as "snack" for some reason.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Although, if all arbitrary words have collective noun precursors, I wonder what a group of sea sponges would be?

Strangely enough, it's a "ninja" of sponges.

I'm totally cereal, you guys.

And the best one so far has to be "a thirst of Irishmen".