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
- A 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).
Feel free to add some more or suggest improvements.
#1 by Kajsa on September 8, 2009 - 3:17 pm
Haha, I loved ” A quagmire of donors”, why not continue on that path and suggest “A cacophony of bloggers” ? Although excellent too , of course.
#2 by Ranil Dissanayake on September 9, 2009 - 9:35 am
ha! yes, a cacophony! brilliant.
#3 by Ben Parker on September 11, 2009 - 9:49 am
One from the archives…
- A wunch of bankers
#4 by Sam Gardner on September 11, 2009 - 11:56 am
The tendency to follow the same fads: a herd of donors?
#5 by Transitionland on September 13, 2009 - 5:56 pm
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
#6 by Sheilah on September 14, 2009 - 2:48 am
An abundance of smart, but poor people