Did you win this? (Lighthearted thread)

I am a collective noun failure [sad}

I only got two, and I used to coach my children on verbal reasoning for the 11 plus, where they all cropped up!
(hangs head in shame)

Yes remember doing them for the 11 plus. Useful for crosswords if only I could call them to mind. Useless information to be honest unless you love words.

Yes remember them from ‘First Aid in English’. Loved doing those and ‘homes’ and ‘occupations’.

Knew them once, soon forgot as they never came in handy. However one I really like I only learned recently A flamboyance of flamingos. How lovely is that.

I've still got 'First Aid in English' somewhere.

I must have known all these at some time in the dim and distant past but ive forgotten most of them.

^ flamboyance of flamingoes^
Lovely

This will annoy me now until I've looked them all up.
?????????

(Yes, I know some of the pictures aren't right!)

Some of them I just couldn't think do. So here they are if anyone is wondering!

Sleuth of bears
Down of hares
Bank of swans
Lepe of leopards
Stalk of foxes

The easy ones - gaggle of geese, covey of partridges, troop of monkeys and clutch of chickens.

I liked the flamboyance of flamingoes!

I only knew gaggle

First Aid in English was a Friday treat at my primary school, as was précis - something I am still good at. And - slightly off piste - does anyone else remember with affection the radio Adventures in Music and the accompanying little black and white booklets (one between two)? I learned such a lot from those lessons,

I loved First Aid in English! My DD was taught using it nearly 20 years later at the same school and I loved it all over again!

I too just saw the flamboyance of flamingoes a couple of weeks ago!
I like a ‘prickle’ of hedgehogs and a ‘ lounge’ of lizards.

I love collective nouns. I knew an “unkindness of ravens“ but have just discovered that yellowlegs (birds) are.....an incontinence of yellowlegs ?????

Lucca, I’d love to see some yellowlegs, just so I could say that!

Meanwhile.....