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🦉 A Parliament of Owls
Maria Popova's beautifully written history of the collective nouns for birds, with vintage illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. 'Language is the birthplace of the imagination and forever its plaything: I remember my unabashed delight when a naturalist friend first introduced me to the terms f
Maria Popova's beautifully written history of the collective nouns for birds, with vintage illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. 'Language is the birthplace of the imagination and forever its plaything: I remember my unabashed delight when a naturalist friend first introduced me to the terms for groups of birds — from a deceit of lapwings to a pitying of turtledoves, and could there be a notion more charming than an ostentation of peacocks?'
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