Talk:Lists of collective nouns

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It would be useful to supply brief quotations containing the usage and their origin, particularly from well-established texts. Mr. Jones 10:57, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Discussions of this topic take place at Talk:English collective nouns. In response to the above, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Besides, many collective nouns do not appear in "well-established texts"; even the well-known "murder of crows" is not listed by the OED.--Shantavira 14:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

This article was nominated for deletion on August 8, 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

[edit] Keep it!

Keep this list as it looks useful. Tabletop 07:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)