On Wednesday, Twitter users Eezeebee and Brett Fish Anderson started the hashtag #ModernCollectiveNouns with the account @AFrikkinHashtag, which hosts hashtag games every Wednesday.
A barrage of Segway riders? A swarm? Join @BrettFishA and @Eezeebee101 as we play #ModernCollectiveNouns
The hashtag actually originated way back in 2012, but picked up in earnest on March 30.
You probably know a few funny collective nouns. For instance, you can have a prickle of hedgehogs or a skulk of foxes.
But Twitter users quickly jumped in with their own playful take on the collective nouns we actually need today...
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A vineyard of six second clips. #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A hypercorrection of prescriptivists. https://t.co/0z1uhtLNd4
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A shallow of Kardashians #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A Penmanship of Doctors #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A validation of selfies #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A debt of graduates #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A seried of typos.
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A fraud of bankers #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A blur of opticians.
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A bulge of manspreaders #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A smug of Priuses.
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A literally of white girls #moderncollectivenouns
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An Irony of Hipsters #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A binge of Netflix subscribers #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A Judgement of Mothers
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A Hillary of Pantsuits
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A sprocket of Steampunks.
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A serenity of meditators. #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A "Connivance" of conspiracy theorists #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A Sequence of Statisticians
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An agglutination of linguists #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A distraction of smartphones #ModernCollectiveNouns
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a froth of baristas #ModernCollectiveNouns
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A pedantry of Oxford commas #ModernCollectiveNouns
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An interruption of mansplainers #ModernCollectiveNouns
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#ModernCollectiveNouns A sitcom of presidential candidates.
27. Welp!
a murder of language #ModernCollectiveNouns
Nice work, Language Twitter!
