"strange assortment" is a grammatically correct phrase and it is often used in written English.
It refers to a group of things or people that are unusual or unexpected, and are therefore a strange or unlikely mix. Example: The antique store had a strange assortment of items, including a Victorian doll, a vintage typewriter, and a taxidermied alligator.
Ms. Tompkins's mother, Valerie, said she had long known that a strange assortment of beasts lived upstairs.
The warren of rooms is chock-a-block with curios and a strange assortment of stuffed animals – a giraffe's head here, a donkey there.
I stay at what was the bank, and eat in a bistro, watching a strange assortment of art students, fishermen and farmers come and go.
He also brought — for Sally — a strange assortment of Scottish cooking herbs he'd obviously bought for his parents at the Glasgow airport, plus a tin of shortcakes "for the house".
So when I walked into Ford's kitchen the other day and was visually assaulted by a strange assortment of vintage metal contraptions that sprouted pipes and gauges and pumps and levers, I knew I was in for an adventure.
For proof, consider the following strange assortment of TV cartoons: Japanese anime; shows that were canceled by networks; a cheap original or two; and second-rate Hanna-Barbera action series that have been cut up and repurposed.
The book explores the strange Prohibition-era assortment of products brewers resorted to, like malted milk, porcelain, and cement, in order to make non-alcoholic drinks.
In this one, we see the same man, this time with a certain pleasing, New Age aura, less awkward in his pose this time, surrounded by a strange and sectarian assortment of what seem to be hippies and monks.
But explorers in Africa, Asia and the Americas were already reporting, and sometimes sending home, a bewildering assortment of strange new species, from the iguana and the opossum to the chambered nautilus.
Aside from the obvious things, an assortment of strange items was on sale from cleaning fluids, to mops, water filters, stuffed toys and sausages... yes, sausages.
A verbose strip whose Sundays were often overrun with prose, its lead characters were Uriah and Ida Stumble, who rented rooms to an assortment of strange characters.
