Collective Nouns 13, November 2009
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Middle East.Tags: Aminal collective nouns, Collective nouns, goldfish, Middle Eastern collective nouns, ravens, weasels, woodpeckers
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No, this isn’t too much to do with the Middle East but it’s just plain interesting. Here are my top 10-ish favourite collective nouns for animals. As far as I know these are all correct. To crow-bar some Middle Easternyness into this post, I’ve come up with a few collective nouns for some regional bits and pieces too.
- A descent of woodpeckers
- A sneak of weasels
- A hover of goldfish
- A storytelling of ravens
- A murmuration of starlings
- A bouquet of pheasants
- A tidings of magpies
- An ascension of larks
- A memory of elephants
- A tower of giraffes
- A shrewdness of apes
- An implausibility of gnus (some quasi-wilderbeast thing)
Some Middle Easterny ones:
- A bling of Gulfies
- A rage of extremists
- A grope of Egyptian men
- A pedant of Arabic teachers
- A tick-tock of Mubaraks, Bashirs and Ghadaffis
Please feel free to come up with your own. The best entry will win the fabled squashed Kit Kat.
The Gulf blog 
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