The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

A cavity of Collingwood fans, a scrape of cyclists, an inferno of tobacco shops — this is Melbourne’s hypothetical list of 100 collective nouns. But what if we could have a yakka of tradies, an ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I am going to acquaint my students with the joys and poetry of the collective noun. So scared am I we are losing the language battle ...

Variously idiosyncratic, intriguing and often unerringly apt in their descriptions of gatherings of birds, animals and people a damning of jurors, an incredulity of cuckolds — most of the collective ...

I am looking forward to one day seeing a bloat of hippopotamuses. No, they won't be bloated, that is the collective noun for a group of hippos. If you are still confused, that is completely normal.

A cavity of Collingwood fans, a scrape of cyclists, an inferno of tobacco shops — this is Melbourne’s hypothetical list of 100 collective nouns.