20 setembro 2018

Anthropomorphic Nouns



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


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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