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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING INSIGHTS

9/12/2019 9:55:53 AM | less than a minute read

A Passel of Possums

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Tom Elgar

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One of the lovely things about having kids is teaching them interesting stuff. And one of those things is Collective Nouns.

An Unkindness of Ravens, a Tower of Giraffes, a Conspiracy of Lemurs, a Smack of Jellyfish.

And one of them, it turns out, is a Passel of Possums. Who knew and why did they spell it wrong?!

Apparently there is no accepted collective noun for Octopuses...

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