A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras by Jason Sacher

3.6 AVERAGE

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bodagirl's review

This is more of a reference book than something I would read all the way through.
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lieslindi's review

Fun to browse through but frustrating. On page 46, the authors assert that "brace" should not be used with "coney" and, of Lord of the Rings, write, "We'd like to think that the linguist Tolkien knew the proper term but that Sam, being an uneducated gardener, did not.... {A} gentleman would know that "brace" only signifies a pair of certain animals." But, according to its index, the book does not specify which animals do belong to "brace." It's correct for pistols so why not for bunnies? Further nitpicking: If you're going to be superior, place "only" in the syntactically correct position. Sheesh.