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January 04, 2008
Skin Alphabet
Skin Alphabet by Thijs Verbeek
One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of crayons, a pad of paper, etc. There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals. (More nouns of assemblage)
Drooping Ambigram pumpkin from this flickr set of ambigrams
Ampersand pool on flickr
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