We don’t have any really good collective nouns, do we? There’s nothing like a “pride” of lions, or an “annoyance” of mimes. I humbly suggest the following:
- A sympathy of charities
- AÂ contradiction of economists
- A frustration of bureaucrats
- A complexity of anthropologists
- A confusion of NGOs
- A quagmire of donors
- An infestation of politicians
- A detail of immigration officials
- An excellence of bloggers (I suspect others may wish to change this to 'A smugness of bloggers'. I'll let you decide. I vote for excellence, as a totally unbiased observer, of course).
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Haha, I loved " A quagmire of donors", why not continue on that path and suggest "A cacophony of bloggers" ? Although excellent too , of course.
ha! yes, a cacophony! brilliant.
One from the archives...
- A wunch of bankers
The tendency to follow the same fads: a herd of donors?
Over at my blog, I added:
A conviction of international criminal lawyers A compliance of human rights officers A delay of IGOs A creep of IFIs A consternation of think tanks A bluster of pundits A vigilance of monitors
An abundance of smart, but poor people