![]() You cannot edit your posts in this forum. You cannot delete your posts in this forum. ![]() You cannot reply to topics in this forum. ![]() You cannot post new topics in this forum. It is also Europe's oldest known record of onomatopoeia! The earliest European-vernacular source of collective nouns for animals is The Treatise from the mid-1200s, a guide for Middle English-speaking kids to learn French. During the 14th century it became a courtly fashion to extend the vocabulary, and by the 15th century this tendency reached exaggerated and even satirical proportions. The fashion of a consciously developed hunting language came to England from France. This tradition stems from an English hunting tradition of the Late Middle Ages. Using collective nouns in sentences is easy, and they are often used to refer to specific animal families.Words for groups of animals, like a "murder" of crows, are called "terms of venery" or "nouns of assembly." Here's a brief history, adapted/copied from Wikipedia. There are many collective nouns for different animal groups, and some are funny and unusual. They help us to be more specific and visual in our language. We call a group of flamingos a flamboyance.Ĭollective nouns for animals make our speech more interesting and colorful.We call a group of porcupines a prickle.We call a group of rhinoceroses a crash.(a poetic way to describe unicorns, it's not a formal collective noun.) We call a group of unicorns a blessing. ![]() Some collective nouns are used to refer to specific animal families.
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