Talk:List of collective nouns by collective term A-K

This article was nominated for deletion on 2007-08-02. The result of the discussion was keep.

Moved

Moved from article space:

a clutch of soft tartsh

an exaggeration of estate agents

a scream of queens

all commonly known colloqulisms in Liverpool England

An embarrassment of riches

elpincha 17:02, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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braapp braapp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.206.61.231 (talk) 16:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Duplication

I have just categorised - through the WP:UNCAT project - the article List of collective nouns by collective term. Only after I did it did I discover this pair of articles. Unnecessary duplication? Sterry2607 17:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

As with L-Z, I'm starting a cleanup of this mostly unsourced mess. I've removed some clear jokes and some misunderstandings (5 keys is not a "ring of keys" unless they are on a ring). I removed the "status" collumn as it told us only that someone, somewhere at sometime considered a term spurious or worthy of a checkmark. Mostly, I've merely asked for a cite. In a month or so, I'll yank any that are still unsourced. In the meantime, I will challenge any new additions that are not cited as well. - SummerPhD (talk) 17:01, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See my comment at Talk:List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_L-Z#Cleanup

There are a good few more clangers on this page: An "anthology" of Prostitutes is quite clearly a derivative of "an anthology of prose" which stems from a joke in the 1960's. A "clutch" of mechanics is similarly an obvious play on words. A "flange" of baboons was from a comedy sketch in the BBC show "Not the 9 O'clock News" where Rowan Atkinson read out a list of stupid collective terms. It was famously repeated on the "Secret Policemen's Ball" show. I would question the validity of any of the terms used on this page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jockstewart (talk • contribs) 13:46, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Doctors have collective nouns?

The titles for doctors and professions seems very tongue-in-cheek and none have citations. A flutter of cardiologists? 24.62.61.61 (talk) 00:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So yank them as unsourced. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

I recommend merging this article with List of collective nouns by subject A-H.

Please see my comments at this Talk Page.

Ozzieboy (talk) 06:00, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New article is complete. See List of collective nouns Ozzieboy (talk) 12:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]