A "skulk of foxes," a "superfluity of nuns," a "business of ferrets" and other weird collective nouns

I liked an Itself of Yahwehs.

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There is a caper-tendency here, I have noticed.

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I’ve been known to caper about* at a show or a local goth club on the odd weekend night.

*I would never go so far as to call it dancing

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Mr. Lipton lists a collection of hermits as an observance. (Which evidently is one that someone else came up with way back in the day, not a new one on his part.) I’d suggest a scattering.

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I’d always favoured an “observation” of. (thought I was being quite original).

This is one of those weird conversations that rears its head every few years.

I do like “a scattering of…” Much better.

A scattering. A smattering. A smatter of…

It’s poetic, somehow.

edited for sense.

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A “bribe.”

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I like that! Oh what about a “disgrace”?

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Oh, I like your style…

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It’s a “fatberg of shitwipes.”

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What´s the one for a large group of borgs? It´s on the tip of my tongue! A borgaggle? A borglatch? Dangit!

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The Borg is the plural. There is no singular

“But what if I run into The Borg and I only see a single physical entity”, you ask?

Wait a couple of seconds

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Assimilate Star Trek GIF by Paramount+

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You’re right, my limited human brain always has a hard time leaving out “the”

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One Borg, two Börger?

One Borgling, two Borglingen?

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The collective term for a group of techbros?

A waste.

(And, obviously, it is a Boing of Happy Mutants)

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An excess

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A shush of supernumeraries?

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Haven’t watched the video (as I’m at work) but a joke around these parts used to be

a wunch of bankers

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