Comedian George Carlin died on this day in 2008. Carlin, who called himself a "cunning linguist," loved words and all the ways we use and misuse and dance around them. A lot of his jokes were about how inadequate words could be. "What's the plural of hell of a guy?" he asked. "Would it be hells of guys?"
How about hellows? Not great, but we'll try to do better with these suggestions for collective nouns, in Carlin's honor:
A slew of gladiators
A herd of sounds
An order of skunks
A brood of beers
A band of books
A drove of cars
A knot of zeroes
A muster of hotdogs
A rash of diapers
A horde of prostitutes
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