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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to cats@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Yeah that sounds about right

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Yeah that sounds about right

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to cats@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • seth@lemmy.world
    361·
    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
      333·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s real. The post was made today on the official Merriam-Webster instagram account. Both terms are used. Destruction is just more modern.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/a-drudge-of-lexicographers-presents-collective-nouns

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        “Used”

        • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
          4·
          1 year ago

          “more modern” = people are saying it on reddit

      • Okami@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That is a load-bearing “(no explanation necessary)”.

        I’d love to see an explanation. How did we get from ‘clowder’ to ‘destruction’? Gaining a syllable and losing alliteration is not a typical linguistic evolution. Who’s actually using this term?

        The closest I’ve seen actual examples of is a tongue-in-cheek ‘catastrophe of cats’, and that never went mainstream as far as I’m aware.

    • Okami@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ditto. Clowder of cats is the term I’m familiar with.

      “Destruction” of cats is new to me. I don’t think I like it. Doesn’t roll off the tongue well.

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    a Wunch of Bankers

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    121·
    1 year ago

    I’ll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFMdVIFsgs

    • PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      https://www.piped.video/watch?v=VeFMdVIFsgs

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  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    A Congress of baboons…

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    102·
    1 year ago

    Some of the other are great too btw. A smack of jellyfish in particular seems like it’s based on a single traumatic but apparently common experience 😂

  • Jerb322@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    Where would one see an ambush of tigers other than a zoo or Circus?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Okay, if that list doesn’t have a business of otters, it’s incomplete and wrong on so many levels.

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    A conspiracy of lemurs has always been my favorite.

  • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    If only there was an abstract word that could describe the union of many individuals when grouped together, regardless of their type of individual.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Where’s the fun in that?

  • catonwheels@ttrpg.network
    1·
    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Wait how many do you need to have to make it a destruction? I live with five, should I be worried?

    Also why are jellyfish doing smack? Don’t they know that is bad for them? Though that does explain their slow nature.

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