Posted by:
Brother Of Jerry
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Date: March 11, 2024 05:29PM
English is peculiar in many ways. They are often annoying peculiarities, but one of its more poetic quirks is having different collective nouns for various groups of animals or other objects.
A pride of lions
A flock of sheep
A school (originally shoal) of fish
A band of men
A slate of candidates
A host of angels
A gam of whales
A gaggle (on the ground) or skein (in flight) of geese
A covey of quail
A murder of crows
An exaltation of larks (the title of a delightful book on English collective nouns by James Lipton)
I was going through a box and came across some 30 year old posts from a forum similar to RFM that existed back then wherein I and a couple other people waxed silly about potential Mormon collective nouns.
A smarm of Ensign authors
An oppression of Visiting Teachers
An intrusion of Home Teachers
A weight of Gospel Doctrine teachers
A stop of church organists
A wave of church choristers
A snore of High Priests
A saccharine of RS teachers
A snicker of deacons
A molestation of scout leaders
A flee of converts
A foretelling of patriarchs
A correction of temple workers
A repetition of testimonies
A twist of scriptures
An odd of ordinances
A shelf of doubts
An intransigence of bishops
A pyramid of salespeople
A pedestal of mothers
An obscurity of scriptorians
A principle of polygamists
A rush of conservatives (remember, this was 30 years ago)
A caffeination of Mormon liberals
An oxymoron of Elders
A sweet of Sisters
A drudgery of missionaries
An arrogance of Assistants to the President
An ambition of mission presidents
A senility of apostles