Use The Appropriate Word, Please

A reader at Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor makes an appropriate observation. Concerning baboons,

They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive, and least intelligent of all primates.

What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

Believe it or not, a Congress!

So, our own tribe of baboons in D.C. are known by the appropriate collective noun after all.

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