Group descriptors

A murder of crows.

A pride of lions.

A gaggle of geese.

All great ways of describing a group of animals.

I recently heard a new one that I liked a lot: a gossip of women.

A little sexist, I know, but there's research to suggest that women who gossip are happier and healthier than their more discreet counterparts, so the descriptor is not entirely unfounded.

But it's great.  Right?

I feel awful because I can't remember where I read it (Stephen King's Insomnia, Zadie Smith's White Teeth or