A "blank" of lemmings.
It's driving me up the wall. I've tried James Lipton's wonderful book
"An Exaltation of Larks" which contains a listing of thousands of group
names but lemmings are not mentioned in the index.
Any help you can give would be most welcome.
James J. Hurlburt - - jjh3...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
> Okay, I know you can have a pod of whales, a pack of wolves and a
> murder of crows but does anyone know what a groups of lemmings would be
> called?
> A "blank" of lemmings.
It's got to be a suicide of lemmings! But, I'm just guessing.
I'll see what I can find in my library.
Becky
How about a "drove" of lemmings? (This is by no means an authoritative or,
for that matter, reference-work-supported answer. I just immediately
think of the phrase "driven off a cliff.")
later,
-Matt
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...or maybe a plunge of lemmings?
A plague of lemmings...
P.S. That is a guess, the real word is more likely to be Scandinavian
than English (or are there lemmings in English-speaking countries?)
Donald
Cambridge, UK
Therefore, I propose "a slander of lemmings."
Sam Buttrey
but...@stat.berkeley.edu
"A Spa of Lemmings"
Iain
:-)
According to Brewer it's a "leap" of leopards, but I have to admit a
"leap" of lemmings sounds entirely appropriate.
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J A (Tony) Sever (to...@sevspc.demon.co.uk)
A Cascade of lemmings, perhaps?
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