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I love you, English as my second language, but you cray cray and I ain’t doing all of that.

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Don’t worry, virtually no first-language English speakers do either

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About the only one of those I use (besides the regular ones like ‘a flock of birds’) is ‘a murder of crows’. Usually in a statement like “We just witnessed a murder.”

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I think I generally operate on “it flies = flock”, “it swims = shoal”, and “it walks on land = herd”. There are exceptions, but that’s the broad approach

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Yeah all of these can be replaced with “group” with no loss in specificity.

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Pretty much. There’s no need to learn all these terms. When in doubt, just call the animal group a group. No one is going to care otherwise.

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I’m Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario in Canada

In English - a group of moose is just ‘a group of moose’ … as far as I know, I’ve never heard of meese or mooses … or else people just say two moose, three moose, four moose, etc.

In Ojibway/Cree - one moose is ‘moose’, because moose is an indigenous word … a group of moose in my language is MOOSUK

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Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Just curious, is -uk just a general suffix to make anything plural, or this is just a one off thing here?

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Yes it is for most words.

Goose is niska … the plural is niskuk

Beaver is amisk… the plural is amiskuk

It’s not a hard rule but it applies to many things, objects and animals.

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Ah thanks, that would explain seeing -uk in so many name places I guess

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How could they leave out a Murder of Crows?

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No doubt! Only the best group name ever.

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Misread it as trump of baboons

Still works

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We are all a rookery of crookery penguins on this blessed day.

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