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 ...

What is a group of ravens called? A conspiracy or an unkindness are the traditional collective nouns for a flock of ravens, ...

The Supreme Court’s controversial decision Jan. 21, 2010, in the so-called Citizens United case reopened the legal can of worms sometimes referred to as “corporate personhood.” That ruling expanded ...

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 ...

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 was happily ensconced in my favorite spot in the living room trying to keep my blood pressure from going through the roof as I watched the news when apropos of nothing my beloved husband walked in ...

Collective nouns are most frequently used in the animal kingdom: A pride of lions. A murder of crows. A shrewdness of apes. A sounder of boars. A rabble of butterflies. A drunkship of cobblers. A ...

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.

ITworld.com – I recommend The Collective Nouns page[1] to anyone with 5 minutes to burn on something diversionary today. It is a mixed bag of suggested collective nouns. Some excellent, some less so.