A reader wrote a letter to me (oh happy day!), and although I'm still not entirely sure what she's trying to accomplish, it's an interesting puzzle to try to tackle anyway. Here's what she asked: I do ...

I have a long, long list of nouns (people, places and things) that I have either yet to enjoy or haven't enjoyed in a good long time. For instance, Nudel on Church Street in Lenox continues to get ...

But what if we could have a yakka of tradies, an incompetence of councillors or a scrape of cyclists? What if a group of ALDI shoppers was called a thrift, and a group of politicians was called a ...

A cavity of Collingwood fans, a scrape of cyclists, an inferno of tobacco shops — this is Melbourne’s hypothetical list of 100 collective nouns.

A cavity of Collingwood fans, a scrape of cyclists, an inferno of tobacco shops — this is Melbourne’s hypothetical list of 100 collective nouns. But what if we could have a yakka of tradies, an ...