There are many strange collective nouns for groups of animals, people, and things. For example, a parliament of owls, a murder of crows, a convocation of eagles, an intrusion of cockroaches, an audience of squid are for groups from the animal kingdom.
A company of archers, an eloquence of lawyers, and a poverty of pipers describe some groups of people.
What about things? A distraction of smartphones, a smug of Priuses, a Hilary of pantsuits I have heard of.
But Jan Smelik from the Netherlands has sent me a link to his Youtube video and we now have collective noun for a group of windmills.
No, not the old windmills for pumping water and grinding grain we know from paintings and tourist brochures- the modern variety which will save the world from global warming.
Very appropriately, an impossibility of windmills.
Here’s his video:
Even more so for Australia!
