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Collective nouns

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DebbieTheCat · 07/07/2025 09:48

Here is a 'loveliness' of ladybirds* on my dahlia plant...

What other collective nouns are suitably apt?
I love a murmuration of starlings and a parliament of owls.

*a bit poetic licence as there are only five in the pic, and not hundreds 😅

Collective nouns
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HappiestSleeping · 07/07/2025 23:09

Wouldn't it be an indignance of mumsnetters?

Or a belligerence?

SerendipityJane · 08/07/2025 08:22

FadedRed · 07/07/2025 22:37

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0952126/

The original of the ‘flange of gorillas’.

Wild ? I was furious !

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