All Sorts - a linguistic experiment - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Sep 09
  

  Joel Neff

  All Sorts is a weird thing. It collects people's suggestions for collective nouns from Twitter and brings them all into one place. In other words, this is what the net is for.

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• 19 Jul 09
  

  Nathan Rein

  Crowdsourced collective noun-izing. Examples: "a grope of stable boys, a rustle of squirrels, a queue of commuters, a tuple of geeks, a lurch of zombies, a whelming of emails, a clamour of emails, an ambuscade of paparazzi, an abhorrence of vacuum cleaners, a brace of dentists, a block of aspiring writers, a cycle of mormons, a boiler of steampunks, a shelf of librarians, a quibble of geeks, a deployment of jehovah's witnesses, a tangle of chargers, a piteousness of doves"

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