Talk:Lists of collective nouns

It would be useful to supply brief quotations containing the usage and their origin, particularly from well-established texts. Mr. Jones 10:57, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Discussions of this topic take place at Talk:English collective nouns. In response to the above, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Besides, many collective nouns do not appear in "well-established texts"; even the well-known "murder of crows" is not listed by the OED.--Shantavira 14:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article was nominated for deletion on August 8 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Keep it![edit]

Keep this list as it looks useful. Tabletop 07:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Passing Thought[edit]

Since Juliana Berners is credited with inventing most of the collective nouns for animals in Book of St. Albans, wouldn’t it be appropriate to call a collection of collective nouns a “berner” as an eponym. As I said, just a passing thought... Sg647112c (talk) 16:13, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merged[edit]

This used to be a useful list of lists, but as most of the lists have been merged, I boldly redirected it to an existing list of lists at the end of the main article. – Fayenatic L (talk) 17:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]