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Thread #55751   Message #868689
Posted By: GUEST,Q
16-Jan-03 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Collective name for a group of Mice
Subject: RE: Collective name for a group of Mice
Some old Englishman started all of this. I think it is called the Hunt Vocabulary, much added to in the 19th century. Probably started with a "pride" of lions, which dates to 1486 ("a pride of Lionys")
Pride of lions
leap of leopards, etc. etc.

and no, it wasn't a trunkful of elephants.