I've always enjoyed the interesting words used in the English language to refer to groups of things (especially animals)...
This particular entry is over a year past due.
The start of this thought thread occurred late one night as I was sitting working back in August of 2004.
I don't remember what triggered it, but as with many of these flights of fancy, the thought led to a Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=collective+nouns which led to the discovery of various interesting pages. For interesting alternatives, try typing "collective nouns" (without the quote marks) into Answers.com. You get a list of "hits" without even having to press enter - very cool! Ask.com also offers an interesting presentation of hits.
One of the more complete collection of terms can be found in the Wikipedia, while one of the more amusing (although mostly proposed as opposed to accepted) can be found on OjoHaven.com's Collective Noun page.
I continue to be impressed with Wikipedia as a general source of information and also continue to marvel at the vast amount of people who invest their time and energy creating and posting pages on just about anything you could imagine.
PS. in case you are wondering how I could remember this thought from so long ago, this is an example of one of those strange things that I email to myself as fodder for future entries. This also provides some insight into how far behind I am on clearing my personal inbox.
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Posted by David at March 19, 2006 06:36 PM