A Valentine for All

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Re: sidebar #56973 02/15/2002 12:09 AM
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel
Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605	Chaucer, ... in a poem titled "The Parliament of Fowls" 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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A Valentine for All	WhitmanO'Neill	02/14/2002 9:58 PM
Re: A Valentine for All	wwh	02/14/2002 11:38 PM
Re: A Valentine for All	wwh	02/14/2002 11:40 PM
.	Max Quordlepleen	02/14/2002 11:45 PM
Re: Valentine's Day History	Keiva	02/15/2002 12:01 AM
Re: sidebar	Keiva	02/15/2002 12:09 AM
Re: A Valentine for All	maverick	02/15/2002 12:47 PM
.	Max Quordlepleen	02/15/2002 6:02 PM
Re: A Valentine for All	maverick	02/15/2002 6:56 PM
Let me get that blue spot off your face	consuelo	02/15/2002 6:59 PM
Re: Let me get that blue spot off your face	maverick	02/15/2002 7:06 PM
.	Max Quordlepleen	02/15/2002 9:15 PM
Re: Let me get that blue spot off your face	belMarduk	02/15/2002 9:39 PM
Re: Let me get that white spot off your face	musick	02/20/2002 3:46 PM
Re: Let me get that blue spot off your face	Capital Kiwi	02/20/2002 6:56 PM
The Flaw in Paganism	consuelo	02/16/2002 12:31 AM
Re: A Valentine for All	Bingley	02/20/2002 8:20 AM
Re: A Valentine for All	RhubarbCommando	02/20/2002 10:16 AM

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