The big list of collective nouns for animals is just a made up thing, sort of like a book of poetry. There are a small number of ye olde Englishe words for som

The big list of collective nouns for animals is just a made up thing, sort of like a book of poetry. There are a small number of ye olde Englishe words for some types of groups (like school of fish) and some of the fanciful names from the book have moved into common usage, but the dramatically expanded version is not known to have ever been actually used some info here https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/4/ https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resour... this is one old source https://archive.org/details/cu31924031031184 https://archive.org/details/cu31924031031184