# Let's collect some new collective nouns **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979 "2007-04-13T17:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/21 "2007-04-15T05:59:14Z")
Not original; I heard it on CBC radio: An apology of Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/22 "2007-04-15T09:27:48Z")
A raffle of lotto winners A failing of presidents A boom of terrorists A Graham of Google ads ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/23 "2007-04-15T22:01:56Z")
**fifty-six** , why Graham? ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/24 "2007-04-15T23:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] **fifty-six** , why Graham? [/QUOTE] I was trying to think of a collective something. So I did a bit of surfing (checked the 35+tabs I had open. To get some ideas.) And noticed the glut of Google adds. I considered a gogol of Google ads or something of the like but it was not to clever. So in an attempt to be more clever I decided to find a another named number to describe a collective of Google ads. So I used a name of a an inconceivably large number to describe the ads of a company named after another large number. The funny twist is that Graham seems like something small. The ads are not generally annoying (small) but they are sure numerous. (large) ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/25 "2007-04-16T14:40:29Z")
A vocabulary of collective nouns. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/26 "2025-07-07T21:09:26Z")
I was going to start a new thread on the subject, but this 18 yo old is amusing anyway. For once the “Your thread is similar to” bot was actually right. I’ve long thought that a murder of crows didn’t make any sense and anyone who has walked down a street full ought to agree with "a caucus (cawcus?) of crows. Then recently I started to think that a herd of red birds certainly ought to be called “a conclave of cardinals”. What can you add? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/27 "2025-07-08T04:31:43Z")
A whatever of teenagers. A clod of managers. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/28 "2025-07-08T06:38:07Z")
A bribe of politicians. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979/29 "2025-07-08T13:09:54Z")
A gathering of “Magic: The Gathering” cards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-collect-some-new-collective-nouns/399979.md?page=1)