English is awesome!

[nenena]

I just found out that the term for a group of shrews is a lament of shrews.

(Somebody in charge of the Oxford English Dictionary must really, really dislike crow and shrews.)

Comments

[baines.livejournal.com]

Some animals have really cool collective nouns.

Murder of crows
Parliament of rooks
Unkindness of ravens

For some reason, that seems to be where people decided to express a lot of imagination.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Unkindness of ravens? That is possibly the most awesome thing I have learned in the last six months.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

OMG I had never heard of an "unkindness" of ravens before. That is AWESOME!

[kalium-kx.livejournal.com]

How oddly appropriate for Ukoku, the Giant Raven/Crow..

[(Anonymous)]

A murder of crows, I've heard of.

And a parliament of rooks, well, the first thing I thought was Parliament of Fowls by Chaucer, so that was not too unfamiliar.

But an unkindness of ravens... O_o

Whoever thought of the collective nouns for black birds in the English language must really dislike them...