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OhMeadhbh 5 days ago

I'm just repeating what I found on the intarwebs: https://englishgrammarhere.com/collective-nouns/collective-n...

afandian 4 days ago | parent [-]

It’s correct enough colloquially. It’s just so much cooler than that.

Just like specialists probably differ from the general population on how many legs / arms an octopus has.

amarant 4 days ago | parent [-]

From the name, either they have 8 tentacles, or they have 8 of something else which is presumably called pus in Latin.

My mind is thoroughly in the gutter now.

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