Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Collective nouns may seem like quirky ways to describe groups, but 500 years ago, they were your ticket to the in-crowd. Most collective nouns, or “terms of venery,” were coined during the 15th ...

Variously idiosyncratic, intriguing and often unerringly apt in their descriptions of gatherings of birds, animals and people a damning of jurors, an incredulity of cuckolds — most of the collective ...

While 'herd' is the most common term, a group of cows can also be called a flink, kine, or drove, depending on the number and ...

ITworld.com – I recommend The Collective Nouns page[1] to anyone with 5 minutes to burn on something diversionary today. It is a mixed bag of suggested collective nouns. Some excellent, some less so.

Climbing out of your car in a crowded supermarket parking lot, you hear what sounds like a raucous cocktail party. Glancing skyward, you see the sound's origin: hundreds of migrating, low-flying ...

What is a group of rats called? It’s a mischief! A group of rats is called a mischief, colony, horde, or plague. What is a group of mice called?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zebras gather in a dazzle, hyenas a cackle and rhinos a crash – or occasionally a stubbornness, depending on their mood. Some creatures ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Take a whiteness of swans, mix it with an embarrassment of pandas and add an implausibility of gnus - what do you get? An alphabetical guide to the weird and wonderful terminology of animal groups, of ...