Last night, I was revising my manuscript when I needed help. Not 9-1-1 help, at least not at that point. What I needed to know was what the collective noun for zombies was. So I did some crowd sourcing on Twitter.
And, let me tell you, if you want Twitter to come alive, tweet a question about zombies. There was little agreement in the beginning.
And then some more:
And more still:
Eventually the expert weighed in. Clay Morgan (@UndeadClay) just released a book. It’s zombie nonfiction: UNDEAD: Revived, Resuscitated, Reborn.
Some confirmation:
And some fun:
I was somewhat flabbergasted by the attention my original tweet garnered, so I posted this on Facebook. And people had some fun with it:
Time to create some more collective nouns in the comments.
What would you call:
a group of teachers on Monday morning?
a group of writers?
a group of exhausted parents?
a group of children hyped up on sugar?
I did a post sometime ago on animal grouping names, Leanne: http://julieglover.com/2011/06/15/wednesday-words-a-herd-of-labels/. I’m voting for a Parliament of Teachers (like owls), a Clutter of Writers (like cats), a Army of Exhausted Parents (like frogs), and a Troop of Children on Sugar (like monkeys).
How about to offerings: 1) A Stiff, and 2) a Stagger
How about parents who think their kids are THE best at everything? A braggart of parents?
As of this moment, I fit into 3 of the 4 categories. What do you do with that? I might just go out looking for a shambling herd of zombies to eat my brains. 😉
I’m going to go with:
A straggle of teachers.
An air of writers.
A fuming of parents.
A stubborn of children.
Someone keeps hacking my Twitter account so I’ve been hesitant to tweet, but good job, young lady!
My DH, who does not comment on my blog (though he does on Knox McCoy’s), wants me to add his answers:
• a groan of teachers
• an ego of writers
• a stupor of parents
• a bounce of children.
a cellar of teachers
an attic of writers
a heap of parents
a cyclone of children
You’ve given me something to ponder … and laugh about. I like your alternative group names as well. I only know that a gathering of thousands of starlings is called a “murmuration.”
A gaggle…for all 4.
My Posse?
A coffeecal of teachers! 🙂
This is way too hard for a non-english speaker. But I have to thank you ’cause I finally understood what “murder of crows” means. It’s included in a song by Sting and I always wondered if he had some traumatic experience with crows as a kid, for calling them murderers.