All Sorts is a clever website that provides a “collection of collective nouns that may or may not have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary. If you think that a charismatic collective is far superior to a dullard ‘bunch’ or ‘flock’ then this is the place for you.”

Some of my favorites from the site include:

• a block of writers
• a knot of string theorists
• a sneer of critics
• a clot of vampires
• a pontification of priests
• a convention of nonconformists
• a tautology of tautologists
• a conspiracy of theorists

A handful of them, such a hush of librarians, are illustrated:

hush-of-librarians

And a round of robins:

robins

Here’s a list of all the nouns used on the site. Have an example of a creative collective noun? Leave it in the comments section and, if you’re on Twitter, send it to All Sorts by adding the hashtag #collectivenouns.

(Via: Kottke)