School of fish or catch of fish?
Long ago I learnt that a group of fish was called a school of fish, but yesterday, in a list of collective names I found "catch of fish".
Are we talking about two different things or are both expressions synonymous? :confused: |
They are different: one is the name of a group of peces, the other is the name of a group of pescados.
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Oooh, I see. I should have imagined. :duh:
Thank you, Wrholt! :rose: |
School of fish = a group of fish.
Same as the classifications of: Flock of birds / geese / seagulls Herd of Buffalos / cows / sheep Pod of Wales |
School of fish is another way of saying "Shoal" which is more widely used.
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I didn't know "shoal". Thank you for the new word, Sancho!! :)
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A company of angel fish / archer fish A battery of barracudas A fleet of bass A school of cod A troop of dogfish A flotilla of swordfish A bind of salmons..... There are many more, and the best site I could find of these is this Note the "gaggle of geese" and the "gaggle of women" :D |
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US usage will probably be different. |
@Perikles: I know they're difficult. My favourites so far were a congress of baboons (no wonder) and a murder of crows. I wonder who on earth has named flocks of specific species with a different name for each. In Spanish they're far less varied.
Thanks for the link. :) @Sancho: Of course, this is not a word to be found in my daily conversations, so I hadn't ever heard it, even from my British friends. Anyway, I'm always happy to learn new words, and I can't wait to use it soon even if I have to introduce a weird chat topic. ;) |
Then there's:-
An 'unkindness' of ravens! |
Oh, cool, I knew "conspiracy", but "unkindness" sounds better. :D
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I have a collection of collective nouns. These are the collective nouns used for ravens. |
I've never heard of an unkindness of ravens, but I have heard of a gaggle of geese.
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Looking at this, Spanish language is quite uninventive. :lol:
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Looking at the website linked above, I see that I'm missing a few, and so are they.
One of my favorites is 'a hearse of vultures'. |
Of course one has to ask on what authority these sites give these nouns - a lot of them are probably made up by the author. I like the "wilderness of monkeys" which I heard in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. There are some amusing ones, like a "set of mathematicians" and a "pile of nuclear physicists".
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A 'body' of pathologists - that one from the (Inspector) "Morse" tv series - when Morse queried the absence of the regular pathologist and being informed that he was attending a professional conference.
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