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Saturday, October 23, 2010

The logic of collectives

Today's World Wide Words, ed. M. Quinion, reminds us of "The Book of St. Albans", 1486, with the list of collective nouns for birds, including:

murmuration of starlings
unkindness of ravens
tiding of magpies
exaltation of larks

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