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	Collective noun
		Many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harass of horses" doesn't seem to have been used much since the 1400s.
		Some alternatives for collective nouns can be clearly traced to the evolution of pronunciation in different areas (hence a "parcel of hogs" and a "passel of hogs").
		The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, plans, ambitions, principles, objectives, mathematical objects, etc) or inanimate (typically manufactured) objects (knives, spoons, keys, dinnerware, manuals, etc).
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	Collective noun - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts.
		Some alternatives for collective nouns can be clearly traced to the evolution of pronunciation in different areas (hence a "parcel of hogs" and a "passel of hogs").
		The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, plans, ambitions, principles, objectives, mathematical objects, etc) or inanimate (typically manufactured) objects (knives, spoons, keys, dinnerware, manuals, etc).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Collective_nouns (799 words)

	Collective noun - Wikipedia
		The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, plans, ambitions, principles, objectives, etc) or inanimate (typically manufactured) objects (knives, spoons, keys, dinnerware, manuals, etc).
		Certain nouns have been excluded from this list because the collective noun is too highly specific and/or could be used to describe a single subject.
		Several of the collective nouns presented are specifically regional (it is unlikely that a "disworship of Scots" was used in Scotland with any frequency).
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		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
		List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
		List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
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		List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
		List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
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		The phrase "An abomination of monks" is frequently cited as a legitimate collective noun for monks.
		It is actually a misinterpretation of the title of a protestant treatise written by Jan Hus around 1400.
		There is no known evidence of its legitimacy as a collective noun, however.
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	List of collective nouns for people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a list of collective nouns for people.
		It is actually a misinterpretation of the title of a protestant treatise written by Jan Hus around 1400.
		List of collective nouns for people, Notes and See also.
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	Back Translating Some Collective Nouns From English into Arabic
		Crystal (1997:69) defines a collective noun as a term which refers to "a noun [denoting] a group of entities, and which is formally differentiated from other nouns by a distinct pattern of number contrast (and in some languages, morphologically)" (emphasis his).
		The grammatical ambivalence of many collectives with respect to the distinction of singular and plural is to be explained by the fact that a collection of objects may be regarded from one point of view as a single entity, but from another point of view as a plurality.
		They are characterized as (–a- marked plural collectives in that they end with the sound / a /) which are mostly classified separately as either plurals, as in /xajja:la/ (horse-men or riders), alternating with a parallel plural form /xajja:lu:n /, or genuine collective nouns, as in / xajja:la / (cavalry) (Drozdik, 1998:24).
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	Kemet.org >> Terms Used by the Kemetic Orthodox
		A collective noun in English is the word "team." A team is one thing, yet is made up of many parts.
		In contrast, "deshret" is the term for the "Red Land" or the desert (a modern term derived from "deshret") that surrounds the fertile "kemet".
		By using the term Kemet instead of Egypt, we refer to the country by the name its own people called it (Egypt is an English form of the Greek name for this land, Aegyptos, itself derived from Coptic hi(t)-ka(u)-ptah, "the house/temple of the ka of Ptah").
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	Collective Nouns Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts.
		One author of a computer book invented some obviously joking collective nouns which systems developers could relate to, including a "bleat" of users; a "retreat" of consultants; and a "trough" of salespersons.
		Likewise, "flock" is a generic collective noun for all sorts of flying birds and also for sheep.
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	English grammar lesson - Nouns
		A common noun is the word used for a class of person, place or thing.
		It is a common mistake to capitalise a common noun that is an important word in a sentence.
		A collective noun is the word used for a group of people or things.
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	Collective noun/Talk - Wikipedia
		Many collective nouns are obscure and archaic - hence a citation from any (respectable) dictionary will be deemed to validate the term.
		And, given that we're not going to have subpages, all the subpages could conveniently live on, e.g., collective nouns sorted by subject and collective nouns for birds.
		I've got a list I've had lying around on my hard drive for quite a while, which was based off of information in Paul Hellweg's "Insomniac's Dictionary." Rather than check the existing lists and cull out duplicates, though, I figured I'd let you do all the hard work for me with your fancy-dancy database.
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		A noun clause and a noun phrase both have the function of a noun in the rest of...
		''Noun phrase'' is a term from linguistics, in particular, transformational grammar.
		group noun (a collective noun, or a noun of multitude).
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		An "anthology of prostitutes" is a pun on "anthology of prose", as "pro" is a common contraction for prostitute in Britain and elsewhere.
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		The phrase "An abomination of monks" is frequently cited as a legitimate collective noun for monks.
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	Nominals p.1
		Below are a couple of common noun issues that might be useful to have under control.
		Another problem class of nouns is that of collective nouns.
		These words name groups: team, jury, band, orchestra, class, flock, etc. The trick about collective nouns is that they act as either singular or plural, depending on whether they are acting as a single group or as individuals.
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	List of collective nouns for non-human mammals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.
		The phrase "A court of kangaroos" is frequently thought to be legitimate, given the (quite unrelated) expression "a kangaroo court".
		There is no known evidence of its legitimacy as a collective noun, however.
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	Collective Nouns
		Here is a short list of other such nouns culled quickly from various sources, a few of which you may not have seen before.
		You’ll no doubt know the expression collective noun, applied to nouns which refer to a group (usually of people or animals), but which are singular in form.
		A collective name for all the forms of floating or drifting organic life at various depths in the ocean, or, by extension, in bodies of fresh water.
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		But, what was worst of all, having accepted a reward for the service he had so thoughtlessly opinion he cared for understand how it had come to pass that he should father, by showing himself to the people in the 'toga pretexta', had set.
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	Anne'Xed Network's Collective Nouns
		Terms originally evolved as hunting terms which is why so many describe field and gaming animals.
		Sometimes a collective noun can be used as a plural noun.
		Examples of these collective nouns are water, money, dishwashing liquid, toilet paper, sand, soap, dirt, etc. Other collective nouns (the class, the committee, the team...) have a somewhat schizophrenic personality.
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	Definition of List of collective nouns for people
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		This is a list of collective nouns for people.
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	Nouns: Grammar: Guide to Authors: Publishing in ESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A proper noun names a particular object, person, or place, or group of objects, persons, or places.
		When the generic term is used in the plural, it is not commonly capitalized: Shuswap and Okanagan lakes; lakes Huron and Ontario; Pekisko and Shunda formations.
		Collective nouns such as board, cabinet, commission, committee, council, government, group, majority, number, and series take their verb or pronoun in either the singular or plural, depending upon the context in which they are used.
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		Many of us were taught that a noun is the name of a person, place, or thing, perhaps with the addition of "state of being." As a rough generalization, this works all right, but it doesn't cover all nouns, as in He got the hit or She scored a run.
		The last two sentences are phrases that include nouns, but they are not noun phrases because the "head" of the phrase is not a noun but a verb (check) or participle (walking).
		When one has both noun modifiers (as such nouns are called) and adjectives in a noun phrase, the noun modifiers almost always placed closer to the noun, and the same is usually true of participial modifiers, though this again we'll have to look at later.
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		FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IN COLLECTIVE NOUNS PAGE - function of different types of collectives - in addition to spureous nature I see in some "documented" words, (more when I can drag out the resources, there is a major flaw between referring to a gaggle of geese and a deck of cards.
		The only definition I know of concerning the fundamentals of a gaggle is "at least seven" according to the authors of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
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