Collective nouns - add your favourite old or newly minted ones here.

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On another thread someone said:
a frill of tadpoles.

an old one I love:
an orchestra of toads.

A murder of crows!

A bevy of jazz musicians.

(This possibly only works north of about Stoke)

A morbidity of majors.

Is there a collective noun for snakes?

A travesty of politicians.

An unkindness of ravens

an embarrassment of glass recycling

This was invented by DP when faced with the empty wine bottles piling up by our bin (they don't take glass in the recycling collections here)

quite a few for snakes, according to wikipedia

I thought Den was the correct one, though.

another list

Damn, feenie beat me to my favourite

It's just so imaginative!

How about a kindness of strangers then?

Or perhaps a comfort of strangers.

I heard this lately:
A clatter of trophies.

A judgement of AIBUs?

A festival of diamonds. A friend of mine said that to another friend who had acquired some blingy new jewellery. Love it.

old fave:

a parcel of penguins

loving a festival of diamonds

I say a festival of litter

I heard 'a clump of cows' once. I know it's not correct but I think it's rather charming.

I love a parliament of owls

have heard an amazement of women (coined by a man I think!)

Oh and a gossip of women, not convinced by that one