A group of rats is most commonly called a "mischief." "Colony" describes rats nesting together in a family group. "Horde" describes a large, overwhelming group of rats. What is a group of rats called?

I HAVE a problem with pronouns. In your column on Jan 6, you wrote: “A herd of cows that belong to the farmer are grazing in his field.” According to my English tuition teacher, “a herd of cattle is”, ...

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Jennifer Bright is the new Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Nature Collective. ( Photo courtesy of the Nature Collective) Congrats to Jennifer Bright, CFRE, who the Nature Collective ...

When not messing around with Risk of Rain 2 mods, Emma can be found absorbed in their latest creative pursuit. Passionate about writing and video games, with an English degree to boot, Emma is always ...

Recently, a local woman alerted me to a lot of ibises nesting in some trees in our county. And by a lot, I mean thousands. She called it a “rookery.” As a self-proclaimed expert in English, I then ...

Names given to flocks of birds of the same species can be charming, odd, bizarre, or downright cruel. Often, however, these collective nouns are uncannily descriptive of birds’ reputation and ...

Deploying collective nouns is a problematic aspect of English usage for many a second-language speaker. Collective nouns refer to entire groups of people, animals, or things that share similarities or ...

Common noun is one of the various types of nouns used in English grammar. Nouns are words that refer to things, people, places, and ideas. They can be classified into different types, such as Common ...

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is 20 years old. Just let that sink in for a second as you come to terms with how old that makes you and where the past two decades have gone. Back from that inevitable ...