Wolfgang wrote:
"Willi" wrote in message
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B J Conner wrote:



A group of crows is not a flock but a "murder".

Anyone know the derivation of that?


I do. But I'm not telling cuz you were mean to me.

"The phrase, according to James Lipton in his An Exaltation of Larks,
dates from 1450 in the form a mursher of crowys. It was a murther of
crowes by 1476. Whether it arose because murdering was thought to be a
characteristic of crows or simply as a negative comment upon flocks of
crows is not known. The mursher form is problematic, however, as we
must wonder if it was not intended as murder but was mistakenly
interpreted as such."

http://www.takeourword.com/TOW173/page2.html

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