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19 Books on group names (Recommended books - alt.usage.english)

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This article is from the alt.usage.english FAQ, by Mark Israel misrael@scripps.edu with numerous contributions by others.

19 Books on group names (Recommended books - alt.usage.english)


James Lipton "An Exaltation of Larks" Viking Penguin, 1991,
ISBN 0-670-3044-6

Ivan G. Sparkes "Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms"
Gale, 2nd ed, 1985, ISBN 0-8103-2188-2

Rex Collins "A Crash of Rhinoceroses: A Dictionary of Collective
Nouns" Moger Bell, 1993, ISBN 1-55921-096-6

There's an online collection at <http://www.lrcs.com/collectives>.

 

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