I am a huge word geek (show love for the linguistics majors, my friends) and one of my favorite things is collective nouns. So I am all over this Friday Five:
What would be a good collective name for your family, as in “A _____ of Joneses?”
We are a hug of Halse-Anderson-Larrabees.
What would be a good collective name for your closest group of friends?
Ummm… a babble of buddies.
What would be a good collective name for the stuff in your desk?
A despair of detritus.
What would be a good collective name for your next-door neighbors?
A glower of strangers.
What would be a good collective name for the people in your line of work, as in “A _____ of accountants?”
I am stuck here. Which do you like best?
1. A scribble of authors.
2. A shelf of authors.
3. An imagination of authors.
What are your Friday Five today?
Meg Rosoff: YA author? Adult author? Does it matter? Tell me true.