Last week, A.Word.A.Day featured collective nouns. Collective nouns are such as a skein of geese or a sounder of swine. In response, enthusiastic readers sent in hundreds of suggestions for new collective nouns--ones appropriate to our times. Here are some AWAD gleaned from the submissions:
An earful of iPod users. -Paul Kitching
A clique of photographers. -Lydia Ross
A scourge of evangelists. -David Scroder
A roll of tootsies. -Warren E. Wolfe
A whine of teenagers. -David Gasson
A cacophony of DJs. -Celeste Mulholland
A barf of bulimics. -Steph Selice
A sounder of politicians at pork barrel. -Tom Cradden
A surfeit of spammers. -Peter Moore
A gargle of word enthusiasts. -Preston Cox
A stonish of wonders. -Alan Williams
An overcharge of plumbers. -Murray Zangen
A bling of celebrities. -Lauren Weiner
A wanding of airport screeners. -Mike Edwards
A lunching of executives. -Pat Goodwin
A blather of bloggers. -Scott S. Zacher
A conjugation of grammarians. -Eric Marsh
A contingent of understudies. -Ben Yudkin
A flight of runaway brides. -Michelle Geissbuhler
A covey of highly effective people. -Esther Krieger
A pride of expectant fathers. -Pat Hutley
A lot of used car salesmen. -Owen Mahoney
A pinch of shoplifters. -Jim Vander Woude
A stupor of television viewers. -Rabbi Vander Cecil
A screech of American Idol contestants. -Dick Timberlake
A tax dodge of gin palaces. -Kate Page
An enthusiasm of AWAD subscribers. -Eleanor Jackson
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