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9-Damn English Language

Group of Animals
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 Parliament of owls.

Now consider a gathering 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 Congress!

 

 

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Created by Sushma Gupta on January 15, 2002
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