Collective nouns are an essential part of language. While we may not use them as often in our daily conversations, we did memorise some of them in school. From a pack of cards to a litter of puppies, ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter An aurora of polar bears, an ostentation of peacocks, an embarrassment of pandas... Collective nouns, the terms used to described a ...

In a warehouse near you, a shipment of Apple tablets arrives from China. "Get the trolleys," wails the foreman. "This rectangulation of iPad 2s won't shift itself!" The choice of collective noun might ...

If you’ve ever stumbled across a ‘charm of goldfinches’ or a ‘crash of rhinos’, you’ll know that the names we give groups of animals can be particularly poetic in the English language. Some of them ...

The legacy of a 15th-Century noblewoman lives on in the form of collective nouns used to describe groups of animals across the world. “Do you know what those are called?” the safari guide at ...

The word noun comes from the Latin word for ‘name’. Concrete nouns are physical things that you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell. In other words, they can be experienced through the five senses.