Thursday, August 25, 2011

Collective Nouns and Congress !



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 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 Congress!


I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington  and New Delhi ???


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