Collective nouns, how do they work?

neodude · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:50

Amleto said:
yay, I'm not the only one!

+3

Got a cheek starting a grammar thread with that elephant in the room!

UncleRuckus · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:52

A parliament of perverts?

malfunkshun · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:52

Surely a nest of rattlesnakes?

Jono8 · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:53

A Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper perverts

div0 · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:54

A spammery of pointless posts?

Sankari · 23 Oct 2012 at 16:59

A Beeb of perverts.
A shriek of teachers.
A cord of rattlesnakes.
A belch of cars.
A vista of planets.

Zogger · 23 Oct 2012 at 17:15

A horn of perverts
"the horn is moving north towards the park"

A boredom of teachers
"I could feel the boredom creeping toward me"

A cuddle of rattlesnakes
"I was attacked by a huge cuddle of rattlesnakes"

Kosmiche · 23 Oct 2012 at 17:16

Is there really a single correct collective noun for perverts?

Learn something everyday.

Hades · 23 Oct 2012 at 17:18

A penguin of nuns.

Bennie-Mac · 23 Oct 2012 at 17:38

A molestation of perverts

A faculty of teachers

A den of rattlesnakes

A fleet of cars

A system of planets

Castiel · 23 Oct 2012 at 18:27

[FnG]magnolia;23014087 said:
Please provide your best guess at the collective noun for the following groups:

(a) Perverts

(b) Teachers

(c) Rattlesnakes

(d) Cars

(e) Planets

e.g. "They're they go, that flock of perverts. It's marvellous, isn't it?"

A Profanity of Perverts.

A Proletariat of Teachers.

A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes....(I didn't invent that one)

A Gridlock of Cars.

A Plenitude of Planets.