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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: parliament of owls
    sub title: a book of collective nouns
  title info:
    title: Unkindness of ravens
  name:
    name part: Rhodes, Chloe
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2014
    edition: New edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and baffling aspects of the English language, and this absorbing book tells the stories of these evocative phrases, exploring and explaining the etymology behind them. Each collective noun summons up the animal or event it describes. But where did they come from? 'A parliament of owls,' for example, seems to have its origins in the 1950s children's classic The Chronicles of Narnia in which C.S. Lewis references a phrase from Chaucer, 'the parliament of fowls.' Lewis' version changed 'fowls' to 'owls' and due to the international success of his books it caught on and is now recognized as dictionary compilers as the 'correct' term for a group of owls.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: People -- Chapter 2: Professions -- Chapter 3: Religious callings -- Chapter 4: Domestic animals and birds -- Chapter 5: Wild animals, insects and fish -- Chapter 6: Wild birds -- Chapter 7: Exotic creatures -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
  note: Chloe Rhodes.
  note: "First published in Great Britain under the title An unkindness of ravens in 2014 by Michael O'Mara Books Limited"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-182) and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Collective nouns
  classification: PE1689 .R465 2023
  classification: 425.54
  identifier: 9781789295955
  identifier: 1789295955
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230413
    record change date: 20250604144602.7
    record identifier: in00005646019