Monday, March 14, 2016

Anthropomorphic Nouns -Priceless.


The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a

Herd of cows,
 
Flock of chickens,

School of fish

And a Gaggle of geese, and

A Pride of lions.

However, less widely known is:

A Murder of crows

(as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens),

An Exaltation of doves

And, presumably because they look so wise:

A Congress of owls


Now consider a group of Baboons.
They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive  and least intelligent of all primates ...

And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

Believe it or not …

A Parliament !

YEP... A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS...!

Pretty much explains everything doesn't it..??

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