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A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a scandal of politicians^*… poetic and sometimes bizarre collective nouns are some of the gems of the English language. So what’s the the collective noun for Poken?

In my last post I discussed the general usage of the word Poken and Bryan Guido Hassin kindly responded with a some additional examples. However the question of the collective noun remained open.

From a commercial viewpoint it could simply be a “box” or an “order”. Looking at the social aspect we might go for “gathering”. However none of those words really feel right.

A few of us discussed this over on Twitter recently. After bouncing various ideas around @tinyblob suggested punnet. This gained general approval and I think it definitely feels right, especially with its delicious strawberry association.

So that’s it: the collective noun for Poken is now a punnet of Poken.

At least on this blog.

* OK, I made that last one up!

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