# Creative plurals for non-animal nouns

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940 "2009-05-28T16:48:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/21 "2009-05-31T22:04:12Z")

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Is anyone gonna send these in? I think ‘a whored of prostitutes’ would take off.

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/22 "2009-05-31T23:32:14Z")

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A historian used to know, Clive Holmes, suggested “a malice of historians.” Very appropriate, and I think it might even be extended to “a malice of academics.”

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**Author:** ![Sheepish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Sheepish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sheepish)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/23 "2009-06-01T12:24:28Z")

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a babble of blondes

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/24 "2009-06-02T07:58:21Z")

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A Collective of Trekkies  
A massive of MMORPG players  
A snarl of _Order of the Stick_ fans  
A legion of demon worshippers ( "my name is . … " )

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/25 "2009-06-02T08:00:11Z")

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A gaggle of Gs? 😃

EDIT: Shit, is G the letter a noun? What if I say “What up G?” 😛

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**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/26 "2009-06-02T13:49:48Z")

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This thread boiled down to geekiness and sex in record time.

a nuisance of mimes  
a matrix of mathematicians  
a groan of comedians  
a nebula of astronomers  
a kernel of webmasters

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/27 "2009-06-02T14:37:06Z")

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A cat-o-nine-tails of dominatrixes (that should be dominatrices, I think)

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/28 "2009-06-02T14:59:42Z")

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A Campbell of science-fiction writers.

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/29 "2009-06-02T15:52:18Z")

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A shitload of nappies (diapers)  
A flock of wallpaper designers  
A number of anaesthetics

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-plurals-for-non-animal-nouns/497940/30 "2009-06-02T16:44:41Z")

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A gagglefuck of new guys.

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