Post #3147671
2025-06-04 12:23 UTC
Replies (6)
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@celeduc@mastodon.social 2025-06-04 12:35
@ujay68@mastodon.world @stephanieburgis@wandering.shop we try!
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@grifenpierre@ludosphere.fr 2025-06-04 12:36
@ujay68@mastodon.world yes or at least a very large number. Those collective nouns are also called terms of venery. Some other notable examples : A murder of crows A mob of kangaroos A parliament of owls A galaxy of sea stars A kaleidoscope of butterflies
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@zorrobandito@aus.social 2025-06-04 12:57
@ujay68@mastodon.world @stephanieburgis@wandering.shop it comes from hunting manuals compiled a few hundred years ago. I think they got carried away but there's a sense of whimsy and anarchy about it that I love!
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-06-04 21:06
@ujay68@mastodon.world @stephanieburgis@wandering.shop Sort of. But they're mostly only used in discussions like this, not in real life.
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@mormegil@mastodonczech.cz 2025-06-06 06:46
@ujay68@mastodon.world Not really, no. But those make good jokes, tricky questions, and clickbait headlines, so it pretends it does. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows @stephanieburgis@wandering.shop
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@AlsoPaisleyCat@tenforward.social 2026-03-03 03:19
@ujay68@mastodon.world Our kids had this picture book when they were younger: https://kidscanpress.com/product/paddling-of-ducks-a/ And here’s a more recent one for grade 1s: https://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/53222 @stephanieburgis@wandering.shop