The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

Mia Mercado humorously lists and differentiates between collective nouns, like a group of ants (a colony) and a group of aunts (a book club).

Naming collective nouns is a time-honored alliteration of bards dating back to medieval days. Their linguistic talents have bequeathed to the English language some intriguing terms, especially for ...

We celebrate our favourite collective nouns for birds, from the weird and the wonderful to the most curious.

Actor, voice performer and comedian Donald Faison is set to host Nouns Fest, taking place on October 10 at the United Theater in Downtown L.A.

Test your animal knowledge with this crafty collective nouns quiz.

Collective nouns are most frequently used in the animal kingdom: A pride of lions. A murder of crows. A shrewdness of apes. A sounder of boars. A rabble of butterflies. A drunkship of cobblers. A ...

Collective nouns may seem like quirky ways to describe groups, but 500 years ago, they were your ticket to the in-crowd. Most collective nouns, or “terms of venery,” were coined during the ...

From 'a dazzle of zebras' to 'a shiver of sharks', collective nouns are a fascinating quirk of the English language, dating back hundreds of years. Holly Williams discovers a new series of prints ...

We can use singular or plural verbs with many collective nouns, Pamela, and government is one of these. Singular and plural forms are often mixed as are the pronouns that refer back to the nouns ...

Sunday Times News: The most common collective nouns for a group of fish in general are school and shoal.