English teacher here. Teaching 2nd language speakers about uncountable nouns is an eye-opener for them. Explaining collective nouns is just baffling.
Well, this might be my lesson next week: something light for the end of term.
A smack of jellyfishes is my favourite.
There really ought to be a squad of squid but I don't think it's "real"
popped into my local next to the station to dodge the rain and enjoy a pint and a packet of scampi fries and come across this
And from the cycling press - a quiver of bikes.
Which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! A quiver holds a number of arrows, all of which are identical. Why would anyone want a bunch of bikes that are all identical?
See, absolutely bloody stupid thing to say! 🤬
I shal have to check out that book, I love things like that. 👌🏻
A Zepher of Long Tailed Tits is my favourite
