Where does the phrase "murder of crows" come from?

Yllaria · November 6, 2009, 11:24pm

I had to look up the eytmology of that and got: 1811, variant of clutter. Sounds like a comment on the herdability of cats.

Disgruntled_Penguin · November 6, 2009, 11:33pm

And a group of Clams is a chowder.

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