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Why is a Group of Crows/Ravens Called a Murder?
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:28 pm
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:28 pm
Reading GoT and they keep calling a flock of crows/Ravens a "murder" never heard that before.
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Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:29 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Because they want to murder something.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:29 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
because ray lewis
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:29 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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never heard that before.
I'm surprised you know how to read
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:30 pm to S
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because ray lewis
and edgar allan poe
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:31 pm to Breesus
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I'm surprised you know how to read.
I have several leather bound books...
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:32 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Don't ravens represent represent death? Or are you asking WHY they represent death...?
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Please put spoilers in the thread title if you're going to tell us what they're sayin in GoT.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:35 pm to lsufan9193969700
Interesting.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:37 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Reading GoT and they keep calling a flock of crows/Ravens a "murder"
No, they keep calling a murder of crows a "murder".
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:38 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
They have this place called England where they invented English and they there decided a while back to describe a group of crows as a murder.
Invent your own goddam language if you don't like it.
Or get literate in your (alleged) native tongue.
Invent your own goddam language if you don't like it.
Or get literate in your (alleged) native tongue.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:39 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
For the same reason it's a Baw of OTers.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:43 pm to Casty McBoozer
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No, they keep calling a murder of crows a "murder".
Exactly.
You dont call a herd of fish a school
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:46 pm to ksayetiger
Because they black and English motherfrickers be racist
A group of doves ain't motherfricking murder.
A group of doves ain't motherfricking murder.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:58 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Same reason a group of Tigers is call a "streak" or an "ambush."
Posted on 4/26/15 at 9:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
My day job is actually Anthropological Animalogist, so I've been studying terms like these for years.
How this one starts is actually a neat story. So, back before farmers ear tagged their livestock, it was hard to keep count of their bovines. Once the "storing room" was filled after the day's slaughtering (a total of 246, generally), they could count how many were left over in the barns and fields.
Thus, that how it came to be known as "A Murder Of Cows"
How this one starts is actually a neat story. So, back before farmers ear tagged their livestock, it was hard to keep count of their bovines. Once the "storing room" was filled after the day's slaughtering (a total of 246, generally), they could count how many were left over in the barns and fields.
Thus, that how it came to be known as "A Murder Of Cows"
Posted on 4/26/15 at 10:01 pm to gthog61
A group of doves is known in Olde English as an "angel" of doves*.
History (and linguistics, apparently) are written by the victors.
*I made this up.
History (and linguistics, apparently) are written by the victors.
*I made this up.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 10:45 pm to squidbait
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Same reason a group of Tigers is call a "streak" or an "ambush."
You would have a hard time convincing Saban of this.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 11:13 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
A group of crows is a murder. A group of ravens is an unkindness. You learn things at mellow's trivia nights
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