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Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.
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I didn't get this one at first because I wasn't aware of the work Murder on the Orient Express.
https://vocabularypoint.com/collective-nouns-for-crows/
I'm speechless.
It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals...
Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome.