Collection of collectives
So wrote Dame Juliana Berners (Barnes; Bernes; b. 1388?), the English writer on hawking and hunting, in the Boke of St Albans, in 1486.
Dame Juliana thus kindly provided us with a colourful collection of collective nouns, my favourite being "a superfluity of nuns". She didn't, however, have everything covered, so I humbly propose several that came to me in the last few minutes, after the rain:
A galaxy of frangipanni flowers outside my door.
A Cappadocia of ant nests in the park.
A Central Station of ants on my sink.
A groundhog of kids with body boards.
A Von Daniken of crab patterns on Sandy Beach.
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