No one? Just yesterday I heard Moishe, a counterman at Katz's deli, cite "exaltation of larks" as he was slicing brisket. @sapinker
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Howard, it's a 'pound' of brisket.
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Oy, I misheard Katz's cutter. He said an "exaltation of lox."
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@sapinker Speak for yourself. I use these words all of the time in every day conversations!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker A startle of newscasters? A brunch of gripes?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker They are fun to make up. A hoax of statisticians. A vestibule of doorknobs. A chasm of collective nouns.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker A murder of crows. A victim of crow ornithologists.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I get my most poetic ones from The Book of St Albans (1486). I see the 2015 reprint has just one collective : a bunch of anything.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I love English collective nouns - wonderfully poeticThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Those words are more difficult to deal with than a rhumba of rattlesnakes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Really, who decides that? Exaltation?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Hey, hands off our exultations!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker let me keep my murder of crows....Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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