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From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter,

and I'm stepping in for this episode, as I want to keep doing. I want to use what I'm

beginning to think is a kind of podcast grammar where I get some miscellaneous stuff over with first.

And so we're going to start with miscellany. Why that word? My mother taught me that word. I

remember when I was a kid, And in my bedroom, there was a

dresser, and she had the drawers labeled. And one of the drawers, you know, it's like underwear, socks,

and one of them was labeled miscellaneous and sundry. And I think now, I've never thought about

this until now. What a strange thing to have on a drawer for like your

four or five-year-old. Miscellaneous and sundry, and that meant the things that just didn't fit

into any category. That said a lot about her, it said a lot about me and a lot about my childhood. But

whatever, the miscellany. And so I want want to talk about collective names for animals, because it

came up between me and a colleague not long ago, and it really got me thinking. And a lot of you

probably already know what I'm going to say, because this pops up online all the time. It pops up.

It parties. It's fun to know. You know, there are herds of things.

Okay. You don't just say a group of cows. It's a herd of cows. And then there's a flock of birds.

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