A group of birds of any type is generically known collectively as a flock. For a number of individual birds, there exist poetic collective nouns particular to the type of bird. Many of these collective nouns are fanciful, and not in common use in English. The book An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton is a good reference for the collective nouns and their etymology, the third edition being the most well-researched. (courtesy of Wikipedia)
Today's fanciful exaltation:
An Unkindness of Ravens.
13-10 against the top-ranked Titans? A nailbiter, and thrilling from first play to the last 53 seconds!
Way to go, guys! One game away from the big one!
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3 comments:
where is the accompanying music to this posting? There's got to be some songs that relate...flock of seagulls? hee hee or maybe bad moon rising?? for their opponents?
i thought it was too early to start "crowing"
they still have a tough fight against the Steelers...
:) jv
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