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"""Names for groups of animals.
---
layout: post
source: Oxford Dictionaries
source_url: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-do-you-call-a-group-of
title: Names for groups of animals
date: 2014-06-10 12:31:19
categories: writing
---
Names for groups of animals.
"""
from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
@memoize
def check(text):
"""Check the text."""
err = "oxford.venery_terms"
msg = "The venery term is '{}'."
term_list = [
["alligators", "congregation"],
["antelopes", "herd"],
["baboons", "troop"],
["badgers", "cete"],
["bats", "colony"],
["bears", "sloth"],
["buffalo", "herd"],
["bullfinches", "bellowing"],
["caribou", "herd"],
["cats", "glaring"],
["caterpillars", "army"],
["cockroaches", "intrusion"],
["coyotes", "pack"],
["crows", "murder"],
["dogs", "pack"],
["eagles", "convocation"],
["emus", "mob"],
["flamingos", "stand"],
["frogs", "army"],
["goldfinches", "charm"],
["gorillas", "band"],
["guineafowl", "rasp"],
["hedgehogs", "array"],
["herons", "siege"],
["hogs", "parcel"],
["hyenas", "cackle"],
["ibex", "herd"],
["iguanas", "mess"],
["lions", "pride"],
["locusts", "plague"],
["mackerel", "shoal"],
["mares", "stud"],
["minnows", "shoal"],
["moose", "herd"],
["mosquitoes", "scourge"],
["nightingales", "watch"],
["oysters", "bed"],
["partridges", "covey"],
["pelicans", "pod"],
["raccoons", "gaze"],
["ravens", "unkindness"],
["rhinoceroses", "crash"],
["sea urchins", "sea"],
["starlings", "murmuration"],
["toads", "knot"],
["wombats", "wisdom"],
["woodcocks", "fall"],
["woodpeckers", "descent"],
["wrens", "herd"],
]
generic_terms = [
"group",
"bunch",
]
list = []
for term_pair in term_list:
for generic in generic_terms:
wrong = f"a {generic} of {term_pair[0]}"
right = f"a {term_pair[1]} of {term_pair[0]}"
list += [[right, [wrong]]]
return preferred_forms_check(text, list, err, msg)
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