Yes, I agree. They are fun to learn. Pride of lions, school of fish, covey of quail, troop of monkeys. I wonder sometimes, who came up with these names.
> I wonder sometimes, who came up with these names.
That's literally what this entire article is about.
From the article:
> "After all, these dumb names must have come from somewhere, right? They did—the Middle Ages. The earliest known collection of terms of venery (an archaic term for 'hunting') is in the Book of Saint Albans, a kind of handbook on manliness first published in 1486."
