What a lovely thing: #ModernCollectiveNouns trended on Twitter today. A game based in creative grammar (not an oxymoron), trending!

A literally of white girls #moderncollectivenouns

— Feja Dooley (@feja_dooley) March 30, 2016

#ModernCollectiveNouns an absence of libraries

— Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrell_b) March 30, 2016

#ModernCollectiveNouns A tickle of sprinkles pic.twitter.com/xS7pryrmSn

— Eric Schwartz (@ericschwartz) March 30, 2016

A tomorrow of procrastinators #ModernCollectiveNouns

— bloops (4 days!!) (@TheMrZippie) March 30, 2016

A clutch of purses#ModernCollectiveNouns pic.twitter.com/81laGaNI7k

— Bunniboila (@bunniboila) March 30, 2016

A plague of anti-vaxxers #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Kat Meringue (@Izianikapani) March 30, 2016

 
I really love how an emotive word can be used as something that would usually be but a functional instrument, thereby imbuing its other half with more meaning.

:’)

But what’s even more brilliant is what your choice of collective noun says about you and how your day is going.

#ModernCollectiveNouns A rampage of “refugees.”

— Greg Cook (@ImGregCook) September 8, 2015

#ModernCollectiveNouns A parliament of paedophiles.

— Horny Willy (@horn_liam) August 1, 2015

A conspiracy of dentists #moderncollectivenouns

— Rebecca Hendry (@BeckyHendry) July 2, 2013