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Duskypearls -> Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/10/2012 3:48:15 PM)
but were afraid to ask! People a blush of boys a drunkship of cobblers a hastiness of cooks a stalk of foresters an observance of hermits a bevy of ladies a faith of merchants a superfluity of nuns a malapertness (= impertinence) of pedlars a pity of prisoners a glozing (= fawning) of taverners Animals a shrewdness of apes a herd or pace of asses a troop of baboons a cete of badgers a sloth of bears a swarm or drift or hive or erst of bees a flock or flight or pod of birds a herd or gang or obstinacy of buffalo a bellowing of bullfinches a drove of bullocks an army of caterpillars a clowder or glaring of cats a herd or drove of cattle a brood or clutch or peep of chickens a chattering or clattering of choughs a rag or rake of colts a covert of coots a herd of cranes a bask of crocodiles a murder of crows a litter of cubs a herd of curlew a cowardice of curs a herd or mob of deer a pack or kennel of dogs a school of dolphins a trip of dotterel a flight or dole or piteousness of doves a raft or bunch or paddling of ducks on water a safe of ducks on land a fling of dunlins a herd or parade of elephants a gang or herd of elk a busyness of ferrets a charm or chirm of finches a shoal or run of fish a swarm or cloud of flies a skulk of foxes a gaggle of geese on land a skein or team or wedge of geese in flight a herd of giraffes a cloud of gnats a flock or herd or trip of goats a band of gorillas a pack or covey of grouse a down or mute or husk of hares a cast of hawks a siege of herons a bloat of hippopotami a drove or string or stud or team of horses a pack or cry or kennel of hounds a flight or swarm of insects a fluther or smack or jellyfish a mob or troop of kangaroos a kindle or litter of kittens a desert of lapwing an exaltation or a bevy of larks a leap or lepe of leopards a pride or sawt of lions a tiding of magpies a sord or suit of mallard a stud of mares a richesse of martens a labour of moles a troop of monkeys a barren of mules a watch of nightingales a yoke of oxen a pandemonium of parrots a covey of partridges a muster of peacocks a muster or parcel or rookery of penguins a head or nye of pheasants a kit of pigeons flying together a litter or herd of pigs a stand or wing or congregation of plovers a rush or flight of pochards a pod or school or herd or turmoil of porpoises a covey of ptarmigan a litter of pups a bevy or drift of quail a string of racehorses an unkindness of ravens a crash of rhinoceros a bevy of roes a parliament or building of rooks a hill of ruffs a pod or herd or rookery of seals a flock or herd or trip or mob of sheep a dopping of sheldrake a wisp or walk of snipe a host of sparrows a murmuration of starlings a flight of swallows a game of swans; a wedge of swans in the air a drift or herd or sounder of swine a spring of teal a knot of toads a hover of trout a rafter of turkeys a bale or turn of turtles a bunch or knob or raft of waterfowl a school or pod or herd or gam of whales a company or trip of wigeon a sounder of wild boar a destruction of wild cats a team of wild ducks in flight a bunch or trip or plump or knob (less than 30) of wildfowl a drift of wild pigs a pack or rout of wolves a fall of woodcock a descent of woodpeckers a herd of wrens a zeal of zebras

kiwisub12 -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/10/2012 4:13:15 PM)
You forgot the important one - A bunch of beer! [:D]

PeonForHer -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/10/2012 5:15:09 PM)
A mumble of malesubs, a prance of femsubs, a bearding of Doms and a stomp of femdoms . . . .

Duskypearls -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/10/2012 6:39:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kiwisub12 You forgot the important one - A bunch of beer! [:D] Shame on me! Is a bunch bigger than a bucket?

Duskypearls -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/10/2012 6:41:01 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer A mumble of malesubs, a prance of femsubs, a bearding of Doms and a stomp of femdoms . . . . Peon, now THAT's hilarious. Did you just come up with that off the top of your naughty noggin?

PeonForHer -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 3:52:38 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer A mumble of malesubs, a prance of femsubs, a bearding of Doms and a stomp of femdoms . . . . Peon, now THAT's hilarious. Did you just come up with that off the top of your naughty noggin? All my own work. I'm here all week. [;)] What do you think though? I offer these collective nouns as suggestions only.

yourdarkdesire -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 4:07:02 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls quote: ORIGINAL: kiwisub12 You forgot the important one - A bunch of beer! [:D] Shame on me! Is a bunch bigger than a bucket? Don't worry about it, it's all gone. We drank it last night. Hic.

DaddySatyr -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 4:11:12 AM)
Actually, I have an issue. Dolphins and whales travel in pods. It can't be a "school" of dolphin. Peace and comfort, Michael

dcnovice -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 5:43:05 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer A mumble of malesubs, a prance of femsubs, a bearding of Doms and a stomp of femdoms . . . . Bravo, Peon! Brings to mind a favorite old thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_1452245/mpage_1/tm.htm

TNDommeK -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 12:18:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr Actually, I have an issue. Dolphins and whales travel in pods. It can't be a "school" of dolphin. Peace and comfort, Michael Ha! I thought the same thing of the dolphin, but thought I might have been wrong. Glad you spoke first.

kiwisub12 -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 12:42:34 PM)
A treasure of trolls A beavy of brats A slew of sissys A pletheria of perverts A conundrum of kinksters A knob of newbies A compendium of canes A flagulate of floggers A whine of whips

DNAHelicase -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 12:51:52 PM)
I call shenanigans. None of these plurals include apostrophes. Going by what I see on the internet and grocers' signs, surely that can't be correct, right? [:D]

mnottertail -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 12:57:49 PM)
the only time I can think of apostrophes in plurals is with numbers, like the 60's, otherwise a apostrpophe is used for possessives as in LP's MacGuffies, or contractions (actually missing letters), wasn't or 'ere me now guv, shut yer bloody gub you 'afwit, 'tis been long e'er I 'eard such rubbish. There may be other cases, but damned if I can think of them at the mo'.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 1:18:01 PM)
We have just seen a rant of Rons. (or would that be Ron's)

kiwisub12 -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 2:28:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DNAHelicase I call shenanigans. None of these plurals include apostrophes. Going by what I see on the internet and grocers' signs, surely that can't be correct, right? [:D] lol

PeonForHer -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 2:59:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dcnovice Bravo, Peon! Brings to mind a favorite old thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_1452245/mpage_1/tm.htm Thank you. But bravo yourself - some of your contributions on that thread absolutely demand repeating!

mnottertail -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/11/2012 3:02:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam We have just seen a rant of Rons. (or would that be Ron's) A rant of Rons. That would be a powerful grouping, but there can be only one. Highlander Ron

FrostedFlake -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/12/2012 11:16:32 PM)
I have always wondered just how many plurals there are.

Duskypearls -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/13/2012 7:13:44 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer A mumble of malesubs, a prance of femsubs, a bearding of Doms and a stomp of femdoms . . . . Peon, now THAT's hilarious. Did you just come up with that off the top of your naughty noggin? All my own work. I'm here all week. [;)] What do you think though? I offer these collective nouns as suggestions only. You've got my vote!

TNDommeK -> RE: Everything you've always wanted to know about plurals... (9/13/2012 12:54:46 PM)
I like this thread, and I hate apostrophes! Sometimes I have no clue if they go or not..oh and that damned semicolon!! GRRRR!!!!

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