Max Cryer contributes a list of genuine collective nouns: 'A chatter of budgies, a parliament of owls, a bevy of quail, a murmuration of starlings, a sedge of bitterns, a kettle of vultures and an exultation of skylarks, plus ... a hover of trout, a drove of bullocks, a leap of leopards, a sloth of bears, a bloat of hippos, a knot of frogs, a smack of jellyfish, a pit of snakes and a skulk of foxes. A group of kittens is a kindle, and the correct word for a gathering of cats is a clowder (very seldom used because cats very seldom gather). Less formal are terms for ladies of the night: a jam of tarts, a peal of belles, an essay of trollops, an anthology of pros, a fanfare of strumpets."
Somewhere to sit ... and possibly study a dictionary.
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