Nah, that’s just what I’m going with. Sounds plausible enough, doesn’t it? ;)
As far as I remember collective nouns are based on an old book (15th or 16th century) and there are some funny ones in there. I’ll look it up and report later.
Edit: “The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Blasing of Arms” by Julia Berners published in England in 1486. It includes 165 collective nouns for groups of people and animals. I suppose the good gal was bored out of her mind and everyone just ran with it to humor her. And today we have have masterpieces like a “conspiracy of lemurs”, “tower of giraffes”, and “destruction of wild cats” (all real I swear).
I have cemented my position as the office weirdo, giggling to myself. The people around me were looking at me like I was Harmut spouting about Myne.
Is this true for English? The only one I can think of that fits is a gaggle of geese.
Herd of sheep, cows, pigs, horse, etc
Pod of dolphins, whales, etc
Murder of crows
Nah, that’s just what I’m going with. Sounds plausible enough, doesn’t it? ;)
As far as I remember collective nouns are based on an old book (15th or 16th century) and there are some funny ones in there. I’ll look it up and report later.
Edit: “The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Blasing of Arms” by Julia Berners published in England in 1486. It includes 165 collective nouns for groups of people and animals. I suppose the good gal was bored out of her mind and everyone just ran with it to humor her. And today we have have masterpieces like a “conspiracy of lemurs”, “tower of giraffes”, and “destruction of wild cats” (all real I swear).