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Anthropomorphic Nouns - Words of the Day
Anthropomorphic
Nouns
I
thought this might be boring, but stick with it.
You'll love the ending--Troupe
might be the most common word, but the other word
might just catch on this
year!
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:
(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.
Baboons
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!
(Note:
I hadn't heard that before, so I looked it
up. It
is correct!)
 A CONGRESS
OF BABOONS!
That
pretty much explains the things that come out of
Washington!
You
just can’t make this stuff
up.
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