DISTRACTIONS

Anthropomorphic Nouns

zephyr 2012. 2. 3. 13:25



 

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 Interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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 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

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.

 

 

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