Today, I marked biggest boy’s English workbook. One of the units was about collective nouns for animal groups. He got none of them right; I would have got about four…
Some are quite eloquent, some funny… quite a few, I’ve never heard of before!
Here’s a sample –
A mischief of mice.
A shrewdness of apes.
An ostentation of peacocks… or a pulchritude of peacocks. ๐
A congregation of crocodiles.
A troubling of goldfish.
A pandemonium of parrots.
A rhumba of rattlesnakes….. and…
A lamentation of swans…
You learn something new every day! ๐













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