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Supernatural Collective Nouns
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The weirdness and variety of collective nouns is one of the beauties of the English language. How can you not love that it’s officially a congregation of alligators, a chattering of coughs, and a shrewdness of apes? So I was delighted to stumble across this chart of Supernatural Collective Nouns by David Malki (which is available as a poster). Enjoy:
