Saturday, March 13, 2010

Collective nouns

Read this:

http://www.ucgc.org/terms-for-collections.htm


Got overexcited:


A disagreement of economists

A promise of politicians

A symptom of doctors

A bill of lawyers

A bonus of executives

A committee of socialists

A bureau of civil servants

A conspiracy of critical theorists

A revolt of Marxists

An oi of punks

A shadow of goths

A hug of hippies

A cry of emos

A pomade of rockabillys

A cardigan of indys

A mosh of metalheads

A latte of hipsters

A ponder of philosophers (oldie but goodie)

A pencil of architects

A beaker of chemists

A cell of biologists

A museum of historians

A measure of physicists

A map of geographers

A dig of geologists

An artefact of archaeologists

A fossil of palaeontologists

A punnet of geneticists

A curation of art-historians

An exhibition of artists

A concern of cultural theorists

A page of authors

A verse of poets

A scoop of journalists

A tabloid of paparazzi

An accessory of fashionistas

A statement of modernists

A reference of postmodernists

A repression of psychoanalysts

An Other of structuralists

A simulation of post-structuralists

A guilt of Catholics

A prude of Protestants

An obligation of Confucians

A release of Taoists

A meditation of Buddhists

A guru of Hindu

An outrage of fundamentalists

A spreadsheet of accountants

A picket of environmentalists

A vector of graphic designers

A repayment of bankers

A risk of insurers

A dividend of shareholders

A quarry of miners

A harvest of farmers

An order of waiters

A code of programmers

A mould of sculptors

A noise of musicians

A shimmy of dancers

A frag of gamers

An interruption of performance artists

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