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The term for a group of owls is "a parliament of owls". Any connection?
The earliest written collection of such "group" terms (insofar as I know) was about 75 years after Chaucer's death, but of course the terms were in use prior to the written collection. Could Chaucer have been punning on a term that was already familiar in his time?
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