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Collective noun for icebergs

For communicating here, we have principally the English language, which I’ve discovered includes no collective noun for icebergs — so here’s our big chance to give something back to the language that means so much to us all!

This discovery arose from a post about icebergs from Antarctica reaching New Zealand.

Choose from the list below the word you think best describes icebergs together and give it your vote. Before long, we’ll send our most popular suggestion to a dictionary editor — the most expensive we can find.

If you have another creative suggestion for a suitable collective noun for icebergs, tell us and we’ll include it in the poll! Just write a comment, below.

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2 Responses to “Collective noun for icebergs”

  1. G.S. Williams says:
    February 5, 2010 at 9:14 am

    Hi,

    Your name for a group of icebergs, I think, could be a ¨melt¨ of icebergs. After all,they start to melt as soon as they break off the ice shelves.

    What do you think?

    Regards.

    G.S. Williams

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    • Richard says:
      February 5, 2010 at 10:05 am

      Your reasoning is strictly practical but your word is euphonious so it’s in the list! Thank you.

      Personally, I’m in love with iceberg grandeur — the immensity, the deep colours, the spectacular forms — and your suggestion describes their destruction rather than their glorious being. But then “melt” has a certain attraction, too. It seems to merge with the iceberg as the iceberg merges with the sea. It titles the inevitable sad fate of one of the grandest children of the landscape.

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