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[K Ubendiran]

English is a funny language... Here is another reason!!!

Anthropomorphic Nouns- From an American perspective.   I thought this might be boring, but stick with it. You'll love the ending.  We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, A Flock of chickens, A School of fish And a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is: A Pride of lions, 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 Parliament of owls. Now consider a group of Baboons. Baboons 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 Congress!   (Note: I hadn't heard that before, so I looked it up. It is correct)   Look up :  http://herbweb.org/animals-collective-nouns.html         A CONGRESS OF BABOONS! That pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington ! You just can't make this stuff up.    ( And we keep re-electing these baboons!!)    Shame on us! )