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Proposals are subject to the immediate democratic judgment of the membership. The Committee assumes no responsibility for terms that achieve popular acclaim despite questionable etymological merit.

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On the Tradition of Venery Terms

The practice of assigning collective nouns dates to the fifteenth century, when hunting manuals catalogued terms of venery for game animals. The Book of Saint Albans (1486) gave us "a murder of crows," "a parliament of owls," and "a pride of lions." The tradition has since expanded well beyond its zoological origins. The Association welcomes nominations for any noun whatsoever, animate or otherwise.

a parliament of owls
a murder of crows
a pride of lions
a conspiracy of lemurs
a bloat of hippopotamuses
an unkindness of ravens