Release date 12 July 2001
Concise Oxford Dictionary
Cobblers
when grouped together are known as a drunkship of cobblers.
Everyone has heard of a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions but did you know
a group of waterfowl is a knob, that it is correct to refer to a shrewdness
of apes, and that the collective noun for a group of ferrets is a business?
The revised edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary contains several appendices
full of fascinating facts and figures. You can find out what you call a group
of prisoners, a group of dotterel, and the range of names for a group of whales.
Interestingly the majority of collective nouns refer to animals; perhaps the
next few years will produce names for groups of lawyers, estate agents, journalists,
politicians, and entrepreneurs.
To pick up a full list of new words entering the Concise Oxford Dictionary click on the link.
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