collective-nouns

One of the things that is awesome about language is the many creative ways we have found to refer to collections of things. For example:

  • A stare of owls
  • A blessing of unicorns
  • A tower of giraffes
  • A shuffle of bureaucrats

There are many more such examples, here: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm

I believe there are many more collectives waiting to be minted! Hence, this repository.

I've seeded collective-nouns.md with a few that occur to me. By all means, please fork and contribute more.