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.)

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[(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...