Loving Language!

[DangerMouse]

I was chatting to a mate of mine who`s Serbian and he asked me what a group of sharks were called. I wasn`t 100% sure so I looked it up and found out it`s "a shiver of sharks" (although school and shoal were also acceptable).

After that I found a site with loads of group nouns on it (this does pose the question as to what a group of group nouns is called ).

I knew a few like "a murder of crows" and "a parliament of ravens" but I`d never heard of "a mischief of mice" or "an ambush of tigers". Anyway if you ever need a group noun Collective Nouns

[Tim]

Originally Posted by DangerMouse

...I looked it up and found out it`s "a shiver of sharks" (although school and shoal were also acceptable).

I know it as a shoal. I've never heard them described as a shiver of sharks.

Originally Posted by DangerMouse

...I`d never heard of "a mischief of mice"

I bet you hate that one!

[Dave 'Two Chairs']

A quarrel of sparrows.

Yup, seems about right.


[For those not in the know, Cap'n Pedantic's real surname is Sparrow]

[Tim]

"A gang of hoodlums"

Quite appropriate for the UK at the moment.

[Wildcard]

Is the phrase "A shower of bastards" used much where you live?

[Queso]

Looking at a "mob" of wallabys at the moment... In a zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. What am I doing here? I can't exactly say.