• Re: [AuE] There is no collective noun for Koalas

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to kyonshi on Mon Aug 12 10:34:39 2024
    XPost: alt.usage.english

    On 8/11/2024 5:57 AM, kyonshi wrote:
    On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 04:47:19 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

    On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 19:39:51 +0000, Transition Zone wrote:

    On Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 12:44:23 PM UTC-5, occam wrote:
    Collective nouns for animals have been discussed here before. Today, I >>>> found out that Koalas do not have one. The explanation given was that
    they are highly private animals, not given to hanging around in
    groups.

    Any other animals in this select, non-collective group?

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    torpor-a-caramelli-a-barilaro-20201026-p568le.html>

    Re: [AuE] There is no collective noun for Koalas

    Is there a collective noun for furniture? golfers? journalists?
    gardeners? clouds? facts? fire? lightning? thunderbolts?or cultures?




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    What is a lot of koalas called?

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    Koala/Collective noun colony They are fairly solitary creatures,
    although they do like to be living in overlapping home ranges in
    bushland with other Koalas. We usually call these groups 'Koala
    populations' or 'Koala colonies'.

    most of those collective nouns were humorous additions to the terms of
    venery used for some older groups of animals. in other words: most of them were intentional jokes


    most of them? like... what?

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