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There
are actually many special quantifiers
used for
specific
nouns--but
many of them are literary or
archaic ("old-fashioned")
terms that were never very
well
known and are certainly not well
known or
commonly used today. Because they
are unusual
and interesting, however, we've included
a few of
the more
colorful ones: |
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a
bale of turtles |
|
a
nest of
mice |
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a band of
gorillas |
|
a nye of
pheasants |
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a bevy of
swans |
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an
ostentation
of
peaocks |
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a brood of
hens |
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a parliament
of
owls / rooks |
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a cast
of
falcons / hawks |
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a plague of
locusts |
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a colony of
ants /
beavers / gulls /
penguins /
rats /
seals |
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a school
of
porpoises / dolphins |
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a flight
of
doves
/ pigeons |
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a skulk of
foxes |
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a knot of
toads |
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a sloth of
bears |
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a leap of
leopards |
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a sounder
of
boars
/ swine |
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a murder (or
hover)
of crows |
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a string of
ponies |
