the English language

[william williams]

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a
Herd of cows,
Flock of chickens,
school of fish
And a Gaggle of geese, and

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?

Believe it or not ……. A Parliament

YEP....A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!
Pretty much explains everything doesn't it?

.........
You just can’t make this stuff up.

bill the old battler

[Heather]

Did you ever doubt it Bill?

Heather

[william williams]

No Heather I never doubted it I just hoped it was not correct

[Neville Briggs]

What's a gathering of bush poets called ??

[Dave Smith]

Fun

[william williams]

?

[Ron]

Bill

Given the present state of affairs that's a bit of an insult to the Baboons isn't it?

Ron

[william williams]

now that would be a debatable question but the baboons may win if they didn't monkey around to much but then again the other group is known to hangout up the hill and go ape now and then

bill w