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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: Names of Animal Groups
Description: The English language is weird.
We have words that are spelled the same but sound different. We have words that are spelled differently but sound the same.
We have words that sound nothing like how they are spelled, and a host of exceptions that you just have to know and remember.
…and then for some reason, we have totally different arbitrary words for different groups of animals. In fact, we have a lot of those words.
Learn more about the words we have for groups of animals and why they exist on t...