Sunday 1 January 2017

English Language - As shared




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,
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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