groups of things

[berniecuddles]

anyone know of a site that can tell me a list of things that are in groups ie: a parliament of owls or school of fish or a colony of bees
thx

[valerieb1254]

Hi bernie,
Try this one. Good Luck.
Val.
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collect ives.htm

[berniecuddles]

thx valerieb very helpful

has anyone else got anything thx

[heathfield]

There's also here. Choose from list A-H or I-Z.

[Quizmonkey]

They're known as collective nouns or nouns of assemblage - just Google: there are loads of sites. A book was published some years ago called An Exaltation of Larks - I think there was another called A Crash of Rhonoceroses.

[Quizmonkey]

Or even rhinoceroses.

[berniecuddles]

heathfield thx just what im looking for and cheers quiz monkey too

[Nether Edge]

Why not start new collective nouns?

A post of e-mailers.
A greed of bond-traders.
A vulture of papparazzi.

[heathfield]

The term' Wunch of Bankers' hasn't been officially listed yet, as far as I know ;-)