Collectives

Collectives

A durante of toucans
A piety of soutanes
A woggle of scouts

A caveat of emptors
A torment of mentors
A loudness of louts

An agenda of schemers
A cumulus of dreamers
A Hamlet of doubts.
Note: Lines 1 and 3 are taken from Wiktionary, Glossary of Collective Nouns

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6 thoughts on “Collectives”

kim881 July 27, 2018 at 10:53 am

This is fun! I particularly like a durante of toucans, a caveat of emptors and a Hamlet of doubts!.

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sdtp33 Post authorJuly 29, 2018 at 8:35 am

Thank you! It was fun writing it.

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Frank Hubeny July 27, 2018 at 6:48 pm

I like that Hamlet of doubts collective.

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sdtp33 Post authorJuly 29, 2018 at 8:37 am

Thanks Frank, oddly enough I had doubts about the Hamlet one initially 😉

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Björn Rudberg (brudberg) July 28, 2018 at 6:25 am

So much fun in this… a way not just to use the collective nouns but creating your own…
A torment of mentors … that’s brilliant

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sdtp33 Post authorJuly 29, 2018 at 8:38 am

Thanks Bjorn! Much appreciated!

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