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
Am I right? Tell me!