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What is the difference between cows and goats?

Why do you say: a herd of cows and a flock of goats? Can goats also fly? ;)

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nmesomtoChukwu profile picture nmesomtoChukwuApril 2019
That looked like a joke. If so, good one. Anyway, "herd" and "flock" are just collective nouns.
  • exRanger profile picture exRangerJanuary 2020
    Right: Such words as "flock", "herd", "pod", "brace", "riot", "gaggle", "school", and several others are "collective nouns" used to define "groupings", or "collections", of various flora and (more typically) fauna (ie, animals).
bensonalan1957 profile picture bensonalan1957January 2020
Collective nouns make no sense and most English speakers don’t know them. A murder of crows. I think some joker just made them up in the past and they got stuck in English
cbrookie2000 profile picture cbrookie2000January 2020
Honestly most native English speakers couldn't tell you. Even though this may not always be correct, herds usually refer to land animals, flocks usually refer to birds, and for fish you would say a school of fish. But more often than not, you wouldn't actually use those terms in day to day conversation.