A group of ants is called a colony. A group of aunts is called a book club. A group of sparrows is called a host. A group of men named James is called late-night hosts. A group of millennials who look ...

Collective nouns may seem like quirky ways to describe groups, but 500 years ago, they were your ticket to the in-crowd. Most collective nouns, or “terms of venery,” were coined during the 15th ...

A cavity of Collingwood fans, a scrape of cyclists, an inferno of tobacco shops — this is Melbourne’s hypothetical list of 100 collective nouns.

For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language. "The" ...

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...

In the English alphabet, the letter X is uncommon and fascinating. It frequently appears at the start or finish of words or inside of them. Despite being less frequent than other letters, words that ...