I got a great response from my last blog on word play so I thought I’d try another!

Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. For example, some common ones are group, herd, flock, or bunch.

I browsed the Net and found these great ones from various sites.  Many of these make a welcome change from the ordinary ones we usually see.  As writers, these can enrich your story and even add a chuckle or two.  Enjoy.

A bask of crocodiles

A shrewdness of apes

A shush of librarians

A shuffle of bureaucrats

A flight of refugees

A bevy of ladies

Or how about . . .

An aurora of polar bearspolar-bears-and-auroro

A prickle of porcupines

A surfeit of skunks

A siege of bitterns

A cry of hounds

A lounge of lizardslounge-lizard

A stud of mares

A troop of dogfish

A shoal of minnows

A flotilla of swordfish

A pack of perch

group-of-parrots

A pandemonium of parrots

An amble of walkers

Think you can use some of these?