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#147855 - 09/13/05 08:03 PM Collective nouns
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Sacrramento The subject of collective nouns reminds me of a game we played in the ICU on the night shift: Medical Collective Nouns:
An injection of nurses
A cast of orthopedists
A rash of dermatologists
A shadow of radiologists
A slice of surgeons
A sphincter of protocologists
An arrogance of cardiologists
A void of urologists
A smear of gynecologists
Additions?
#147856 - 09/13/05 09:07 PM Re: Collective nouns
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Vermont a pod of podiatrists
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#147857 - 09/13/05 11:59 PM Re: Collective nouns
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Seattle, Washington, USA a snoot of rhinologists
a house of ecumenists
a flutter of lepidopterists
EDIT: Sorry, I lost the medical thread in my enthusiasm.
#147858 - 09/14/05 12:17 AM Re: Collective nouns
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Vermont an inspiration of enthusiasts.
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#147859 - 09/14/05 04:50 AM Re: Collective nouns
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Seattle, Washington, USA an inspiration of enthusiasts.
or
an inspiration of pulmonologists.
#147860 - 09/14/05 07:48 AM Re: Collective nouns
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#147861 - 09/14/05 09:02 AM Re: Collective nouns
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Vermont > inspiration of pulmonologists
better!
(and though having to explain something often spoils it, here's the etymology for enthusiasm:
enthusiasm
1603, from M.Fr. enthousiasme, from Gk. enthousiasmos, from enthousiazein "be inspired," from entheos "inspired, possessed by a god," from en- "in" + theos "god" (see Thea).)
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#147862 - 09/14/05 02:55 PM Re: Collective nouns
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#147863 - 09/14/05 04:17 PM Re: Collective nouns
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#147864 - 09/15/05 04:01 PM Re: Collective nouns
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Sacrramento Upon seeing a group of ne'er do well students...
A knot of Rhodes?
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