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Crazy Collective Nouns Posted by on Aug 21, 2012

A collective noun is the name of a collection of people, animals, or things that can be spoken about as a whole or group.  One of the many oddities (and annoyances) in the English language is the number of different collective nouns that exist.  Some of these collective nouns are likely to be familiar to…

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