Anthropomorphic Nouns... :)

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ediz ★

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Jun 19, 2012, 5:14:58 AM6/19/12

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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.