Well that's a new one to me too! I love some of the collective nouns, especially a parliament of owls and a murder of crows 
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Do you ever come across a word that is new to you but you feel you should have known?
This morning I learned that a group of squirrels is called a scurry. I don’t remember seeing that in my First Aid in English.
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