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My co-host Grant Barrett just left here with a butterfly net. He said something about going out to collect specimens of slang.

Anyway, speaking of collecting, it's the moment you've all been waiting for, the results of the Away With Words Collective Noun Contest.

You recall that on a recent episode of our show,

Jennifer from Sarasota called us to talk about collective nouns and we discussed

several of our favorites including an exaltation of larks and a shrewdness of apes and a clouder of cats.

Well Grant and I decided that it would be great to hold our own collective noun

contest online at our brand new a Waywithwords discussion forum.

You can visit the forum and meet fellow word lovers there at wayward radio dot o'rg

that's wayward as in way with words wayward radio dot o'r g on the forum we asked you to propose new collective nouns for the following three types of items

One a group of tennis players two a group of aliens from outer space, say a crockery of aliens.

And finally, putting all modesty aside, we asked you to come up with a collective noun for more

than one language-loving radio host.

Well, the results are in, and all I can say is that Grant and I need a collective noun for

a whole bunch of clever answers.

Now, before I announced the winner of the first Away With Words Collective Noun

A-Thon, I want to share with you a few of the other strong contenders. Now you

remember the first assignment was a collective noun for a group of tennis players.

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