Collective Noun For Fountain Pen Users?

[cybaea]

I am wondering and hoping the experts here can provide the definitive answer: what is the proper collective noun for fountain pen users?

Vote and/or comment, please.

My initial list of suggestions:

• A flock of fountain pen users
• A pride of penmen
• A school of scribes
• A cluster of calligraphers
• A rabble of writers
• A swarm of scriveners

but I am sure you can do much better.

 

Have a great weekend, all!

[openionated]

A swarm of stylophiles?

[BrandonA]

A swarm of stylophiles?

 

That sounds a little too close to something nasty.

[SujiCorp12345]

I like flock, but I kinda feel like we're stealing Pelikan's thunder.

[GeekyGirl]

I like flock, but I kinda feel like we're stealing Pelikan's thunder.

 

Unless most of us in the flock are using Pelikans . . .

[dms525]

"A Scriptorium of Scribes" would be more fitting and historically accurate.

 

For pen users in general, how about "An Inkling?"

 

"A doodle of scribblers?"

 

"A NIbble of Calligraphers?" I think that one is particularly tasteful.

 

A choir of pen users, of course, would be "A Penchant."

 

So many possibilities ....

 

David

[Flounder]

 

That sounds a little too close to something nasty.

 

Perhaps Stylists?

[Flounder]

And if you have kids, they can say they're stylish, on their father's / mother's side

[stonezebra]

"A Scriptorium of Scribes" would be more fitting and historically accurate.

 

For pen users in general, how about "An Inkling?"

 

"A doodle of scribblers?"

 

(edited)

 

David

 

Have to say I really like these first 3 suggestions in particular. Thanks David!

[mirosc]

"A Scriptorium of Scribes" would be more fitting and historically accurate.

 

For pen users in general, how about "An Inkling?"

Now that are really nice suggestions!

[cybaea]

I like flock, but I kinda feel like we're stealing Pelikan's thunder.

 

yeah, a flock of Pelikans. A range of Montblancs? A crew of Sailors? I sense another poll for another silly weekend

[ISW_Kaputnik]

A ring of nib-elungen.

[cybaea]

A ring of nib-elungen.

 

Great suggestions, all.

[Sadiq]

Let me try...A drop of doodlers.

[inkstainedruth]

Somewhere in my house I have a copy of _An Exultation of Larks_ which gives all sorts of group nouns like these (the general term is "venery", BTW, and I think it comes from medieval hunting terminology). Yes, I know all sorts of weird trivia....

I voted "other" because while I kinda liked "pride of penmen" I kept wondering if there was something better. Partly because it's not all men on here. But more because I'd like to find something that was more inclusive (not everyone on FPN is a writer or a calligrapher, and "scrivener" makes me think too much of that story by Herman Melville (and not in a good way). But I'm not coming up with anything good, sorry.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Medsen Fey]

I thought the term pen posse was pretty standard.

[onepuff]

A mess of inkers.

[ScienceChick]

 

That sounds a little too close to something nasty.

 

My husband calls us a plethora of penophiles.

[kidde]

While I don't see myself as even remotely crow-like, my wife says if I spill any more ink on the bed there will be a "murder".

She says I'm clumsy, noisy, don't listen, who knows what she says half the time.

 

Paul

[openionated]

 

That sounds a little too close to something nasty.

There used to be a pen magazine called Stylophile for pen collectors. I thought it sounded reasonable.