Monday, September 16, 2019

English with a Smile

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

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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