

We love this one because it calls to mind images of a nuclear family of small fish. It’s amusing to imagine a swarm of bees flying in bicycle formation, but the real reason this is a collective noun for bees is because the word “bike” is an old English word which means a colony, nest, or swarm.Ĭollective Noun for Sardines is a Family of Sardines

See if you like them and share your personal favourites in the comments (if our designer gets the time, she might just create a new illustration for you) A Bike of BeesĬollective Noun for Bees is a Bike of Bees We thought we’d create this funny list for you and bring them to life with illustrations … for no real reason other than to make you smile at the end of a hard week.ĭid you know the collective noun for butlers is a ‘sneer of butlers’? Harsh. And our love for the English language here recently took me and our graphic designer down the road of collective nouns.

Out of context, words and phrases can be weird. Turns out, the term is related to disappearing butlers in The Sims 3. It happened to me yesterday, when Google Suggest churned out: “my butler disappeared”. When you work in SEO and spend a lot of time looking at search queries on Google you tend to stumble upon some funny things that people search for.
