Collective Nouns

[UPDATE: Apparently it's only a murder of crows if they have probable caws.]

I was walking down the street the other day with a friend, when we saw three window cleaners, each with a ladder over one shoulder and a bucket in their hand, walking in perfect formation.

"What's the collective noun for window cleaners?" my friend asked.

"A shammy?"

Some other wonderful collective nouns - all true:

• Ambush of Tigers
• Charm of Finches
• Congregation of Alligators
• Crash of Rhinoceroses
• Glaring of Cats
• Smack of Jellyfish
• Tower of Giraffes

You can find more collective animal nouns on Wiki.

Meanwhile, these lists of Fave Collective Nouns and Collective Nouns also offer some insight:

• Amble of Walkers
• Array of Luminaries
• Bestiary of Mythological Creatures
• Exaggeration of Fishermen
• Field of Theoretical Physicists
• Formation of Geologists
• Gaggle of Gays
• Gatling of Woodpeckers
• Number of Mathematicians
• Ponder of Philosophers
• Shower of Applied Meteorologists
• Sprig of Vegetarians
• Stack of Librarians
• Unease of Compromises

Just for equality purposes, I would also like to add: A Straight of Heterosexuals.

And, really, there ought to be a Blush of Brides.

Don't even mention Collective Nouns for Lawyers.