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BrainStuff Classics: Why a Gaggle of Geese? Where Do Collective Nouns Come From?

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:06:07
Publish Date: 2025-04-20 09:00:00
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About 500 years ago, creating clever collective nouns for groups of animals, objects, and people was trendy, and some of those nouns of assemblage stuck. Learn the history of this quirk of the English language in today's classic episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/shrewdness-apes-collective-nouns-500-year-old-language-fad.htm

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