Saturday, June 2, 2012

A murder! And other anthropomorphic collective nouns...

Dust off your old English grammar textbooks. It's time to recall that long word "anthropomorphic"!

Here are the easy collective nouns for animals...
A herd of cows
A flock of chickens
A school of fish
A gaggle of geese

I daresay many people would get this one below right too (but it gets harder after that)...

A??? of lions?

A ??? of crows?

This one will be tricky! A ??? of doves?
If you think the earlier one was bad enough, try this one -- owls!
Last one... baboons. The collective noun for this one is hilarious!
Okay, if you are (understandably) stumped, here's all the answers, compiled by an American who is obviously less than impressed by his country's politicians...

http://www.armsmart.com/includes/emails/2011/nouns.html

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Whimper and Whine note:
The "guilty one" was sorry, haha! But the two girls were really cute when they were re-enacting that Electric Company song. I wish there was YouTube back in the 1980s.

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