Tuesday, October 21, 2008

All together now!

    by Anna Sugden

    One of my favourite English lessons as a teacher (no groaning!) was Collective Nouns. You know - the name for a group of things:

    A pod of dolphins
    A tower of giraffes
    A prickle of hedgehogs
    A leap of leopards
    A mob of kangaroos
    A company of moles
    A crash of rhinos
    A harem of seals
    An ambush of tigers
    A sneak of weasels

    It was such fun seeing how children's minds worked as they came up with their own examples. Could they more innovative than:

    A murder of crows
    A cast of falcons
    A chattering of goldfinches
    A twittering of magpies
    An exultation of larks
    A convocation of eagles
    A match of nightingales
    A parliament of owls
    An army of caterpillars

    If you Google collective nouns, you can pass an entertaining few minutes seeing what others have come up with - and not just for animals and birds. These sites had some really funny ones.

    http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

    http://www.guy-sports.com/months/jokes_collective_nouns.htm

    So, for a little Wednesday fun, I thought we could come up with some collective nouns of our own. What would you call a group of:
    golden roosters
    Banditas
    BBs
    cabana boys/hockey hunks/gladiators/cowboys/dukes
    romance heroes
    romance heroines
    romance authors
    romance readers
    romance novels
    nasty villains


    And I'm offering a prize. Real English Cadbury's chocolate for the best/funniest/most creative answers.Source URL: http://violeta-diario.blogspot.com/2008/10/all-together-now.html
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