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Friday, 20 April 2012

-: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, 



a Flock of chickens, 

 

 a School of fish 


 and a 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?
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Believe it or not ……. a Parliament


 

 

A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!
I guess that pretty much explains the things that
come out from the Parliament 


You just can’t make this stuff up.

              Thanks & Best  Regards, 

 

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