Did you know that when crows get together it's called a 'murder of crows'? One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a
herd of elephants, a
crowd of people, a
box of crayons, a
pad of paper, etc. There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a
sleuth of bears to a
murder of crows.
What do you think of these?
A cry of hounds, a scold of jays, a shrewdness of apes, a deceit of lapwings, a bother of christians.
But, you have to admit, a murder of crows says it all.
