Listening to Nova 100 this morning, I heard a discussion about crows and ravens. After hearing a few people refer to a group of ravens as a “flock of ravens”, I remembered that a group of crows is known as a “murder of crows” which is a really mad collective noun.

There are even better collective nouns, including a conspiracy of ravens. My favourite collective nouns include:

• Pod of assasins
• Wunch of bankers
• Rascal of boys
• Alibi of crows
• Parliament of ravens
• Cry of hounds
• Fagot of drummers
• Paradise of elephants
• Giggle of girls
• Colony of gulls
• Den of thieves
• Slither of snakes
• Lust of prostitutes

Resources:

http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/collectivenouns.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_subject_A-H

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_subject_I-Z