WHAT is the collective noun for a group of economists?
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What's the collective noun for a group of Arab leaders?
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What's the collective noun for a group of voice AIs?
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The collective noun for cuckoos, by the way, is an asylum.
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Technically, the collective noun for a group of hedgehogs is a prickle.
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In this puzzle, "Button-downs?" is not a collective noun referring to strait-laced people.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — What's better than starting off our solving week with a whole bunch (that's the collective noun) of cuddly animals?
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DAVID TERRYDroitwich, Worcestershire Professor Ben-Gad answered your call for a collective noun for economists with the admirable suggestion of "aggregate" (Letters, December 17th).
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To revel in how *great* office life is, Australian comedy group Collective Noun have put together a video of things you'll never hear inside one.
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DAVID STEPHENSONChief data scientistDSI AnalyticsAmsterdam Further to the letter of Michael Ben-Gad (December 17th) I think the appropriate collective noun for economists should be "a quandary".
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The word "fandom" is both a collective noun, describing many fandoms and subfandoms as one giant body of fans, and a singular one referring to a single fandom.
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Fortunately, the folks from Australian comedy group Collective Noun have imagined it as an amusing, rather than frustrating encounter, from the denial of burnt toast to an over-filled tea cup.
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The worms sleep together in a pile, she noted, and for that reason she and her colleagues have been trying to popularize the phrase "a cuddle of velvet worms" as a collective noun.
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It turns out that nothing compares to watching a streak of tigers (the other collective noun is an "ambush") running, so many together that their bodies start to blur into an impression of fur and teeth.
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Although it's hard to use Twitter as a collective noun, Twitter had feelings about it, about Putin's presence, about the lackluster pairing in the opening match, and about the fact that the United States didn't qualify.
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Well, fortunately, the folks at Australian comedy group Collective Noun have given the 1999 classic new life (as if it needed more lives already) styled as an #inspiring TED talk, complete with muted laughter and golf claps.
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The proper collective noun to use to describe a group of rats is — according to most dictionaries — a "mischief," a fact that will certainly be useful in describing the latest refreshes to Mad Catz's RAT line of gaming mice.
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Dia Lacina, a Native American writer, highlighted the game's use of terms like "braves"—which is the collective noun used for the Nora's warriors—"savages", "primal" and "tribes" as being, if not disrespectful, then certainly not afforded due consideration given their historical connotations for Native Americans.
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This season's productions tackle topics like health insurance (Preexisting Conditions, written by Elyse Pitock and directed by Alexis Wilcox), labor and collective action (Collective Noun, written by Haleh Roshan and directed by Lauren Zeftel), queer childhood (Six Years Old, written by Sam Silbiger and directed by Helen Handelman), a man struggling with his title as "the Venus Williams of solitaire" (Patience, written by Johnny G. Lloyd and directed by Velani Dibba), and more.
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"Coven" has been used as a collective noun for vampires, possibly based on the Wiccan usage. An alternative collective noun is a "house" of vampires.
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The collective noun for a group of kangaroos is a mob, court, or troupe.
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Detachment is also the term used as the collective noun for personnel manning an artillery piece (e.g. gun detachment).
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Saurischia = "those with hips like those of lizards"), but Dracohors (meaning "the dragon cohort") is the singular of a collective noun.
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A male stoat is called a dog, hob, or jack, while a female is called a jill. The collective noun for stoats is either gang or pack.
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In English, the term Spanish relates both to the language and to the nation. The noun used for a person from Spain is Spaniard, with the collective noun the Spanish. The term Castilian is much less widespread amongst English speakers than the term Spanish.
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Unlike the term jargon, the term critical vocabulary is seldom used as a collective noun. It is typically preceded by the definite or indefinite article. When speaking about more than one critical theory, it is used in the plural (i.e. "the critical vocabularies of postmodern studies").
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Pinker learned of Rapaport's earlier example only in 1994, and Rapaport was not informed of Borgmann's sentence until 2006. Versions of the linguistic oddity can be constructed with other words which similarly simultaneously serve as collective noun, adjective, and verb, some of which need no capitalization (such as "police").
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It was also frequently known quasi-nominally as Jack. An archaic collective noun for a group of jackdaws is a "clattering".First recorded in John Lydgate's Debate between the Horse, Goose and Sheep (c.1430) as "A clatering of chowhis", and then in Juliana Berners' Book of Saint Albans (c.
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The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the , which is composed of (rhino-, "nose") and (keras, "horn") with a horn on the nose. The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd. The name has been in use since the 14th century.
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A troop of baboons The collective noun for baboons is "troop". Most baboons live in hierarchical troops. Group sizes are typically around 50 animals, but can vary between 5 and 250, depending on species, location and time of year. The structure within the troop varies considerably between hamadryas baboons and the remaining species, sometimes collectively referred to as savanna baboons.
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Although is singular, in these terms it is used as a collective noun, like police. An individual officer is called a (plural ), or less formally, a "guard", and is typically addressed as such by members of the public when on duty. A police station is called a station. is also the name of the lowest rank within the force (e.g.
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Howard L & Patten M (eds), 1960, The Australian Women's Weekly — Cookery in colour, Paul Hamlin LTD, London UK, sections956-971 The singular preserve or conserve is used as a collective noun for high fruit content jam, often for marketing purposes. Additionally, the name of the type of fruit preserves will also vary depending on the regional variant of English being used.
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New World quail are also found in the Galliformes, but are not in the same family (Odontophoridae). Buttonquails are not closely related at all, but are named for their similar appearance. They are presently placed in the family Turnicidae of the Charadriiformes, more closely related to shorebirds, gulls and auks. The collective noun for a group of quail is flock, bevy or covey.
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Belief in jinn, and other spiritual beings, is widespread among Muslims. Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root jinn (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose primary meaning is "to hide". Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, "beings that are concealed from the senses". Such creatures are believed to inhabit desolate, dingy, dark places where they are feared.
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There is often confusion about the two different concepts of collective noun and mass noun. Generally, collective nouns are not mass nouns, but rather are a special subset of count nouns. However, the term "collective noun" is often used to mean "mass noun" (even in some dictionaries), because users conflate two different kinds of verb number invariability: (a) that seen with mass nouns such as "water" or "furniture", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete (although it may ["water"] or may not ["furniture"] be etically nondiscrete); and (b) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its (both grammatically and etically) discrete constituents. Some words, including "mathematics" and "physics", have developed true mass- noun senses despite having grown from count-noun roots.
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When the word "lark" is used without specification, it usually refers to this species. A collective noun for Eurasian skylarks is an "exaltation". Although the Oxford English Dictionary describes this usage as "fanciful", it traces it back to a quotation from John Lydgate dating from about 1430. The verb "skylark", originally used by sailors, means "play tricks or practical jokes; indulge in horseplay, frolic".
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It therefore seems reasonable to conclude that this collective noun includes the commercially quarried Easdale, Belnahua, Luing and Seil, plus their larger and relatively recently inhabited close neighbours of Shuna and Torsa with the "many others" being the smaller uninhabited islands and skerries in their immediate vicinity. This then excludes Lunga and Eilean Dubh Mòr and their own outliers that lie to the west of Luing, between Scarba and The Garvellachs.
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"Rouge Belge" is a collective noun designating diverse Devonian red limestone varieties found in Wallonia (Belgium). Some names refer more specifically to the quarry were the material was found like the renowned "Rouge de Rance". Also Rouge Royal is a Belgian red limestone with a specific pattern of white and greyish veins. Rouge Royal is the mainly trade name of a natural stone from the area around Philippeville from several quarries.
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Senegambia, also known in Dutch as Bovenkust ("Upper Coast"), was the collective noun for the fortifications and trading posts owned by the Dutch West India Company (DWIC) in the region now known as Senegal. The main purpose of these trading posts was to obtain slaves in order to ship them to the Americas. The government of the territory was based on Gorée. In 1677, the Dutch lost this island to France.
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The name "Pléiade" was adopted in 1323 by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse and is used as well to refer to the group of poets around Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay in France in the 16th century (see "La Pléiade"). In modern times, "pleiad" is also used as a collective noun for a small group of brilliant or eminent persons.
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Following almost a decade of development, Ishii staged the inaugural K-1 tournament in Yoyogi Hall, Tokyo, in April 1993.Anonymous (2001): "K-1 set for August in Vegas." Black Belt, 39(10):108–110. According to The Japan Times, the "K" element came from kakutogi (a Japanese collective noun for combat techniques) and the "1" element came from the competition's single weight division and the champion's unique position (given the single weight division).
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Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root (, jann), whose primary meaning is "to hide" or "to adapt". Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, "beings that are concealed from the senses".. p. 462. Cognates include the Arabic ' (مَجْنُون, "possessed", or generally "insane"), ' (جَنَّة, "garden", "eden" also “heaven”), and ' (جَنِين, "embryo"). Jinn is properly treated as a plural (however in Classical Arabic, may also appear as jānn جَانّ), with the singular being jinnī (جِنِّيّ).
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After this he walks on for a bit and then heads home. On the second day, despite having had another bad night, he leaves the house in the morning and doesn’t return until nightfall. He describes being "set on and pursued by … stoats" which – perhaps significantly – he refers to as "a family or tribe"Beckett, S., From An Abandoned Work, Six Residua, Beckett Short No 5, p 17 rather than using the more common collective noun, pack.
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Sokgot Woman on a nolttwigi: under her chima, layers of sokgot can be seen Sokgot () is a collective noun for various types of traditional Korean undergarments. They were worn as part of a hanbok before the import of Western-style underwear. Women usually wore several layers of undergarments, the more layers they had the richer they were. Undergarments were considered very important, thus it happened that the quality and material of the underwear was better than that of the visible outer layers.
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Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption, and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they may be released to supplement the wild population, or extend into areas outside their natural range. In 2007, 40 million quail were produced in the U.S. The collective noun for a group of quail is a flock, covey,USGS - Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group or bevy."Bevy", Merriam- Webster.com.
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Confusion often stems from the way that different forms of English handle agreement with collective nouns—specifically, whether or not to use the collective singular: the singular verb form with a collective noun. The plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns (e.g., "The team have finished the project."). Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "-s" that were once considered plural (e.g.
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GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), version 2.10, a free and open source image editing application Application software (app for short) is a program or group of programs designed for end users. Examples of an application include a word processor, a spreadsheet, an accounting application, a web browser, an email client, a media player, a file viewer, simulators, a console game or a photo editor. The collective noun application software refers to all applications collectively. This contrasts with system software, which is mainly involved with running the computer.
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More distantly related members of the family Anatidae are swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller. The term "goose" is more properly used for a female bird, while "gander" refers specifically to a male one. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. The collective noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump.
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In linguistics, a collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing, such as the word "group", which can be applied to people ("a group of people") or dogs ("a group of dogs") or other things. Some collective nouns are specific to one kind of thing, especially terms of venery, which identify groups of specific animals. For example, "pride" as a term of venery always refers to lions, never to dogs or cows.
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A fleuron is a flower-shaped ornament,"Fleuron" Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009 and in architecture may have a number of meanings: # It is a collective noun for the ornamental termination at the ridge of a roof, such as a crop, finial or épi. # It is also a form of stylised Late Gothic decoration in the form of a four- leafed square, often seen on crockets and cavetto mouldings. # It can be the ornament in the middle of each concave face of a Corinthian abacus.
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The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like- minded individuals with views with which the speaker disagrees. It is used as a mild term of disapproval or contempt, or in an attempt to belittle and ridicule the subject. For example, "PC brigade" is used to describe a supposed group of people who go around enforcing political correctness rules. "Green welly brigade" refers in a deprecating way to well-heeled people who find their recreation in the countryside.
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Things that are bauddha pertain to the Buddha, just as things-saiva relate to Shiva and things-Vaisnava belong to Vishnu. (...) bauddha can be both adjectival and nominal; it can be used for doctrines spoken by the Buddha, objects enjoyed by him, texts attributed to him, as well as individuals, communities, and societies that offer him reverence or accept ideologies certified through his name. Strictly speaking, Sakya is preferable to bauddha since the latter is not attested at Ajanta. In fact, as a collective noun, bauddha is an outsider’s term.
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It is not clear if the original Berber term was used to refer to all Berbers or only a tribe or other subset.Salem Chaker (1986), "Amaziɣ (le/un Berbère)", Encyclopédie berbère, 4, pp. 562–568, retrieved 25 January 2020. The Egyptian term Meshwesh for a tribe of ancient Libyans is probably a cognate. Anthony Leahy (2001), "Libya", in Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Oxford University Press), retrieved 25 January 2020. In the 1st century AD, Lucan uses Mazax, the singular form of Mazaces, as a collective noun for the people.
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Indigenous Canadians (also known as Aboriginal Canadians, Native Canadians or First Peoples) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Although "Indian" is a term still commonly used in legal documents, the descriptors "Indian" and "Eskimo" have somewhat fallen into disuse in Canada, and some consider them to be pejorative. "Aboriginal" as a collective noun is a specific term of art used in some legal documents, including the Constitution Act, 1982, though in some circles that word is also falling into disfavour.
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The name Trevadlock has its origins in the Cornish language and the best explanation of this difficult place name has been given thus. ‘tre’-'homestead' can be written as ‘trev’ before a word beginning with a vowel, so it's ‘trev’ + ‘adlock’. ‘aidlen’ – aspen (in the singular) turns up in a word list in Old Cornish, the ‘Vocabularium Cornicum’. This would have probably been ‘aidl’ in the plural/collective. The suffix ‘-oc’, when added to a collective noun would mean ‘abounding in….’. Trev + aidl + oc = Trevadlock, ‘Homestead abounding in aspen’ fossilised in the Old Cornish form and possibly pronounced as TrevAIDlock originally.
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For example, Problem 94 challenges the reader to trace the origin of the word FEAMYNG, a purported collective noun for ferrets. Borgmann's solution, which spans four pages, shows the term to be a ghost word; it was the result of a centuries-long chain of typographical errors (from BUSYNESS to BESYNESS to FESYNES to FESNYNG to FEAMYNG) propagated through various dictionaries. Problem 84 contains the earliest known example in print of the repetitive homonym "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo". The book also contains a separate set of 18 "Bafflers"—short essays on logological problems for which Borgmann had no complete solution.
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The term grey literature acts as a collective noun to refer to a large number of publications types produced by organizations for various reasons. These include: research and project reports, annual or activity reports, theses, conference proceedings, preprints, working papers, newsletters, technical reports, recommendations and technical standards, patents, technical notes, data and statistics, presentations, field notes, laboratory research books, academic courseware, lecture notes, evaluations, and many more. The international network GreyNet maintains an online listing of document types. Organizations produce grey literature as a means of encapsulating, storing and sharing information for their own use, and for wider distribution.
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The exceptions, where agarics have evolved independently, feature largely in the orders Russulales, Boletales, Hymenochaetales and several other groups of the overarching phylum Basidiomycetes. Old systems of classification place all agarics in the Agaricales and some (mostly older) sources use "agarics" as the colloquial collective noun for the Agaricales. Contemporary sources now tend to use the term euagarics to refer to all agaric members of the Agaricales. "Agaric" is also sometimes used as a common name for members of the genus Agaricus, as well as for members of other genera; for example, Amanita muscaria is sometimes called "fly agaric".
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In the ditch, the political hacks are ordered to strip off their clothes and engage in a diving contest. Dulness says, "Who flings most filth, and wide pollutes around/ The stream, be his the Weekly Journals, bound" (II 267–268), while a load of lead will go to the deepest diver and a load of coal to the others who participate. "The Weekly Journals" was a collective noun, referring to London Journal, Mist's Journal, British Journal, Daily Journal, inter al. In this contest, John Dennis climbs up as high as a post and dives in, disappearing forever.
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Often by choosing an animal, the school wants to emphasize the instillation of fear of losing athletic competitions to the institution's teams, such as through an especially fierce or stealthy animal. When the school chooses an animal as its athletic nickname, usually in the plural or as a collective noun for a group of that animal, then typically, the school has that animal (in the singular) as its mascot, either specifically named with a proper noun or generically referred to without a proper noun. Examples: Michigan Wolverines, Oregon Ducks, Princeton Tigers, Iowa Hawkeyes, California Golden Bears, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Texas Longhorns.
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In 21st-century English, the term includes the pejorative sense of "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person". The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones". The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and developing countries of the world. Via Campesina, an organization claiming to represent about 200 million farm-workers' rights around the world, self-defines as an "International Peasant's Movement" .
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Chariots are also an important part of both Hindu and Persian mythology, with most of the gods in their pantheon portrayed as riding them. The Sanskrit word for a chariot is rátha- (m.), which is cognate with Avestan raθa- (also m.), and in origin a substantiation of the adjective Proto-Indo- European ' meaning "having wheels", with the characteristic accent shift found in Indo-Iranian substantivisations. This adjective is in turn derived from the collective noun ' "wheels", continued in Latin rota, which belongs to the noun ' for "wheel" (from ' "to run") that is also found in Germanic, Celtic and Baltic (Old High German rad n., Old Irish roth m.
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The senior member was a man-at-arms (gen d'armes in French, plural gens d'armes or gendarmerie as a collective noun). This man was supported by a squire (ecuyer or coutillier, usually a younger man still undergoing his apprenticeship to arms, or not yet fully proved in battle. The man-at-arms and squire were further assisted by a page, or valet de guerre, usually a teenage male, who was responsible for caring for their armour, equipment, and horses. The squire was generally fully armoured, and usually charged alongside (or close by) the man-at-arms, and helped him handle the sixteen- to nineteen-foot lance when they fought dismounted (which initially happened fairly often).
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In the foreign languages, the Middle Ages denominations of these names survived, but for the Albanians they were substituted by shqiptarë, Shqipëri and shqipe. The primary root is the adverb shqip, meaning “clearly, intelligibly”. There is a very close semantic parallel to this in the German noun Deutsche, “the Germans” and “the German language” (Lloshi 1984) Shqip spread out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri. The change happened after the Ottoman conquest because of the conflict in the whole line of the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural spheres with a totally alien world of the Oriental type.
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As of 2016, the field is still in flux and vendors are pushing their own marketing term for what amounts to an "AI accelerator", in the hope that their designs and APIs will become the dominant design. There is no consensus on the boundary between these devices, nor the exact form they will take; however several examples clearly aim to fill this new space, with a fair amount of overlap in capabilities. In the past when consumer graphics accelerators emerged, the industry eventually adopted Nvidia's self-assigned term, "the GPU", as the collective noun for "graphics accelerators", which had taken many forms before settling on an overall pipeline implementing a model presented by Direct3D.
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Authors have suggested Jonathan Swain of whaler Independence in 1820, or William C. Swain of whaler George Champlain in the 1830s. Other evidence suggests Obed Swain of whaler Jefferson of Nantucket, who, unlike William C. Swain, actually was at Tahiti when the United States Exploring Expedition was there with the USS Peacock and Captain Hudson. In Tokelauan, the main language formerly spoken in Swains Island, the island is called Olohega . The name is composed of the prefix olo-, indicating a collective noun, and the word hega, meaning a tuft of feathers tied to the end of a skipjack lure, possibly referring to the island's location at the end of the Tokelau chain.
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Linguistic areas of North American Indigenous peoples at the time of European contact Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, the last being a mixed-blood people who originated in the mid-17th century when First Nations people married European settlers and subsequently developed their own identity. The term Aboriginal as a collective noun is a specific term of art used in some legal documents, including the Constitution Act 1982. The first inhabitants of North America are generally hypothesized to have migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge and arrived at least 14,000 years ago. The Paleo-Indian archeological sites at Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves are two of the oldest sites of human habitation in Canada.
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Undergraduate students are accommodated for the full three or four years of their study, either on the main site or on college-owned property primarily in North Oxford and the Folly Bridge area. A new Hertford Graduate Centre fronting the Isis was built near Folly Bridge and was opened in 2000. Hertford is home to a college cat named Simpkin, who lives in the College Lodge and is the fourth of his lineage, collectively Simpkins, the collective noun for Hertford College cats; the original was called Simpkin and was introduced by the former college principal Geoffrey Warnock, named after the cat in the Beatrix Potter novel The Tailor of Gloucester. He is provided with a bursary by alumni to cover his food and veterinary treatment.
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The Mambilla / Mambila people of Nigeria and Cameroon regard themselves as a group with a common identity. They are the denizens of the Mambilla Region, and have been in their homeland for upwards of 4,000 years (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003). In Nigerian dialects they refer to themselves as 'Norr' (the people) while in Cameroon there is a collective noun 'Ba' that is used in the unmarked sense to refer to the Mambilla, and also to refer to Mambilla in Cameroon on the Ndom or northern Tikar plain (see below) contrastively with neighbouring Mambilla on the highlands of the Mambilla plateau who can be referred to as "Bo ba bo". The populations of different Mambilla villages speak different dialects of Mambilla or closely related Mambiloid languages.
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There has historically been some difficulty in identifying people as Koli or as Bhil people in what is now the state of Gujarat. The two communities co-existed in the hills of that area and even today there is confusion regarding their identity, not helped, in the opinion of sociologist Arvind Shah, by there being "hardly any modern, systematic, anthropological, sociological or historical study" of the Kolis. Sources from the medieval period suggest that the term koli was applied generically to lawless people, whilst British colonial studies considered it to be a vague collective noun for varied communities whose sole common feature was that they were inferior to the Kunbis. At some stage, koli became accepted as a caste and thus superior to the tribal Bhils.
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The name comes from the medieval ruling dynasty, the Connacht, later Connachta, whose name means "descendants of Conn", from the mythical king Conn of the Hundred Battles. Originally Connacht was a singular collective noun, but it came to be used only in the plural Connachta, partly by analogy with plural names of other dynastic territories like Ulaid and Laigin, and partly because the Connachta split into different branches. Before the Connachta dynasty, the province (cúige, "fifth") was known as Cóiced Ol nEchmacht. In Modern Irish, the province is usually called Cúige Chonnacht, "the Province of Connacht", where Chonnacht is plural genitive case with lenition of the C to Ch. The usual English spelling in Ireland since the Gaelic revival is Connacht, the spelling of the disused Irish singular.
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Instead, they must be represented in some second-order form. In ordinary language, such second-order forms use either grammatical plurals or terms such as “set of” or “group of”. For example, the sentence involving Napoleon can be rewritten as “any group of people that includes me and the parents of each person in the group must also include Napoleon,” which is easily interpreted as a statement in second-order logic (one would naturally start by assigning a name, such as G, to the group of people under consideration). Formally, collective noun forms such as “a group of people” are represented by second-order variables, or by first-order variables standing for sets (which are well-defined objects in mathematics and logic). Since these variables do not stand for individual objects, it seems we are “ontologically committed” to entities other than individuals — sets, classes, and so on.
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Some sources refer to the "independent minyan movement", drawing a parallel between the increasing number of independent minyanim and the past creation of established Jewish denominations (known as "movements"). Others reject the "movement" terminology and refer instead to the "independent minyan phenomenon" or simply to "independent minyanim" without a collective noun, because independent minyanim are not affiliated with a set of central organizations, and do not share a religious ideology.Jewschool, December 14, 2008, "Independent Minyan Conference closing plenary" Others still refer to the "independent minyan movement", understanding "movement" not in the sense of Jewish religious movements, but in the sense of social movements (such as the civil rights movement, or more closely parallel, the havurah movement); or a community/cultural movement, such as the Jewish Community Center movement.[ "About JCC Association," which includes a description of the "JCC Movement" dating back to 1854, with the opening of the first Young Men's Hebrew Association.
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Susie Dent (2006) The like, Language Report for real "WAG"/"wag" came also to be used somewhat redundantly ("deluxe-edition Wag girlfriend"Rod Liddle, Sunday Times, 13 August 2006), although in such usage "girlfriend" (or "wife") could be interpreted as further denotative specification within the set of people fitting both the denotation and the connotation of "WAG", and increasingly in non-footballing contexts: for example, the first wife of comedian Peter Cook (1937–95) was described as a "Sixties Wag"Sunday Times News Review, 24 September 2006 and actress Jennifer Ellison, because of her former choice of clothes, "once ... the epitome of a Wag".Reference was made to Ellison's erstwhile "short skirt, high heels, long talons and hair extensions" and the tenuous fact that she had once stepped out briefly with Liverpool and England player Steven Gerrard: London Lite, 5 October 2006. Fashion writer Shane Watson coined a collective noun, "waggery".Sunday Times Style, 17 September 2006 One can also be "Wagged" This type of acronym is of long standing in British English.
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