Finding the Perfect Collective Noun for Your Blogs
I have a lot of fun with collective nouns. When I am reading from my book Don’t Call Me Turtle, I always stop and ask the students or the audience if they know what the collective noun for tortoises is. Only once has someone answered correctly. It turned out he had just read my book the week before and remembered! I’m always delighted when I realize that the students I’ve taught not only listened but are actually able to repeat the scientific facts later. Oh, and what is that collective noun for tortoises? It’s a creep—a creep of tortoises!
Collective nouns can be incredibly entertaining. There are the usual ones we all know, like a herd of cattle or a school of fish, but others are far more imaginative, such as a parliament of owls or a flamboyance of flamingos.
While looking for new topics to write about, I ran across a fun question: is there an official collective noun for blogs? I decided to look it up online, and what I found was far more than I ever imagined!
Exploring the Blogosphere
First, the entire universe of authors and their digital writings is called the blogosphere. This refers to the vast, interconnected community of people writing and reading online. There’s an entire world created by blogging and blogs—welcome to mine!
But wait, there’s more. Several other terms are used specifically as collective nouns for blogs:
- A “Chatter” of blogs: This suggests a conversational, informal writing style. That is exactly what I am going for with my posts—conversational, but hopefully still interesting and educational.
- A “Writ” of blogs: This term is typically reserved for blogs that might be considered controversial. Every now and then, I suppose my subject matter might border on that!
- A “Breath” of blogs: This implies a fleeting or dissipated thought. Though I have to wonder, how do you write a blog post based on a fleeting thought? Wouldn’t it be gone before the writer even reached a decent word count? Some of my ideas may feel like they are dissipating before I can express a coherent thought, but I usually manage to catch them.
- A “Wealth” of blogs: This refers to a large, valuable accumulation of posts.
I’ve written a substantial collection of updates over the years, both as myself and from the perspective of my character, Curtis Curly-tail. I’m not entirely sure I would consider my current archive a “wealth” just yet—but maybe someday!
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