Thursday, 14 July 2016

TELAWAA: Thursday, July 14, 2016
 My big boss, teacher and mentor, Professor Segun Awonusi, an astute scholar of English, sent this to me and gave me the permission to post to all: "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 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 -- "parliament"... "A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS" Guess that pretty much explains the things that come out from the Parliaments we have these days. MY TAKE: I hope you get the crux of the gist?

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