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A balance of accountants
A cast of actors
A wing of aircraft
A choir of angels
A host of angels
A colony of ants
A shrewdness of apes
A match of arsonists
A belt of asteroids
A team of atheletes

A bib of babies
A congress of baboons
A culture of bacteria
A cete of badgers
A rhyme of balladeers.
A shoal of bass
A hill of beans
A sloth of bears
A colony of beavers
A grist of bees
A hive of bees
A swarm of bees
A dissimulation of birds
A volery of birds
A singular of boars
An audit of bookkeepers
A hail of bullets
A guilt of butlers

A hand of cardsharps.
An army of caterpillars
A drove of cattle
A clowder of cats
A clutter of cats
A peep of chickens
A clutch of chicks
A chattering of choughs
A bed of clams
A nightmare of clowns
A network of computers
A bury of conies
A file of convicts
A cover of coots
A flight of cormorants
A flink of cows (twelve+)
A sedge of cranes
A murder of crows
A cowardice of curs
An empathy of customer advisors

A donut of data
A fistful of dollars
A trip of dotterel
A dole of doves
A dule of doves
A flight of doves
A piteousness of doves
A paddling of ducks
A raft of ducks
A team of ducks

A convocation of eagles
A disagreement of economists
A clutch of eggs
A herd of elephants
A gang of elk
A staff of employees
A construct of engineers

A handful of fingers
A draught of fish
A business of flies
An army of frogs
A cast of falcons
A business of ferrets
A charm of finches
A school of fish
A patch of flowers
A leash of foxes
A skulk of foxes
An army of frogs

A camp of gay men
A gaggle of geese
A skein of geese
A wedge of geese
A giggle of girls
A cloud of gnats
A horde of gnats
A tribe of goats
A trip of goats
A band of gorillas
A flight of goshawks
A concentration of grandmasters.
A wisdom of grandparents
A cluster of grasshoppers
A brace of grouse
A covey of grouse
A colony of gulls

A cruft of hackers
A tangle of hairs
A down of hares
A husk of hares
A leap of hares
A cast of hawks
A kettle of hawks
A prickle of hedgehogs
A brood of hens
A siege of herons
A slew of homework
A gang of hoodlums
A pair of horses
A team of horses
A cavalcade of horsemen
A cry of hounds
A mute of hounds
A pack of hounds

A wealth of information
A vagary of impediments
A chain of islands

A band of jays
A party of jays
A smack of jellyfish
A diversion of jokes

A mob of kangaroos
A troop of kangaroos
A ring of keys
A kindle of kittens

A deceit of lapwings
An exaltation of larks
A huddle of lawyers
A leap of leopards
A pride of lions
A plague of locusts

A tidings of magpies
A sord of mallards
A confusion of management consultants
A mess of management trainees
A burnt offering of catering managers
A diversion of human resources managers
A stress of middle managers
A swill of senior managers
A stud of mares
A richesse of martens
A number of mathematicians
A set of mathematicians
A mob of meerkats
A nest of mice
A whistle of modems
A bank of monitors
A tribe of monkeys
A side of morris dancers
A range of mountains
A barren of mules

A tribe of natives
A watch of nightingales
A collective of nouns

A crowd of onlookers
A parliament of owls
A yoke of oxen
A bed of oysters

A quire of paper
A ream of paper
A company of parrots
A covey of partridges
A wait of patients
A muster of peacocks
An ostentation of peacocks
A colony of penguins
A troup of performers
A bouquet of pheasants
A covey of pheasants
A nye of pheasants
A seam of pickpockets
A ponder of philosophers
A litter of pigs
A humility of Air Force pilots
A waft of glider pilots
An ego of Marine pilots
A congregation of plovers
An aurora of polar bears
A string of ponies

A bevy of quail
A covey of quail

A nest of rabbits
A field of racehorses
A conspiracy of ravens
An unkindness of ravens
A crash of rhinos
A parliament of rooks
A murmuring of rosaries

A rage of sadists.
A constellation of satellites
A plot of scriptwriters.
A pod of seals
A spring of seals
A bellowing of Sergeants Major
A shiver of sharks
A flock of sheep
An armada of ships
A fleet of ships
A flotilla of ships
A stench of skunks
A bed of snakes
A walk of snipe
A wisp of snipe
A brigade of soldiers
A company of soldiers
A division of soldiers
A platoon of soldiers
A squad of soldiers
A host of sparrows
A dray of squirrels
A galaxy of starlets
A murmuration of starlings
A galaxy of stars
A muster of storks
A ton of stuff
A class of students
A flight of swallows
A bevy of swans
A wedge of swans
A trick of swindlers.
A drift of swine
A sounder of swine

A jam of tarts
An agenda of tasks
A spring of teal
A cagulation of teenagers
An annoyance of telemarketers
An explosion of terrorists.
A bunch of things
A knot of toads
A gape of tourists
A heap of trash
A grove of trees
A stand of trees
A hover of trout
A tumult of tubas
A rafter of turkeys
A pitying of turtledoves
A dule of turtledoves
A bale of turtles

A blessing of unicorns

A nemesis of archetypal villains
A nest of vipers

A plump of waterfowl
A sneak of weasels
A skein of weavers.
A grunt of weightlifters.
A gam of whales
A pod of whales
A clash of wills
A pack of wolves
A rout of wolves
A descent of woodpeckers

A squirm of worms
A congregation of worshippers

A fart of zebras

 

 

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Contributions to The Langwidge this year:

Sol Squire, David Lawton

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Harry Potter - A Guide

Quagga Books

Ask Anon - Honest Advice

Weirdity

Guide to Flaming

13 January 2008 | |
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