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We love to help our readers. If you occasionally have to write reports or summaries, if you like to be informative in your holiday letters, or if you just like to send emails that are cogent, we believe we have a great gift for you. And of course, if you write for a living, we’re here for you without question. Because we care.

Throughout history, assemblers and collators of linguistic sensibleness such as the estimable Henry Watson Fowler have combined great advice with excellent examples of sound usage. One of Fowler’s many contributions is his defining of collective nouns, such as “pride of lions,” or “flock of sheep”—“pride” and “flock” being the collective nouns in these cases.

A lot of people who only read Fowler superficially complain mistakenly that he’s a blockheaded prescriptionist, but he is much more sophisticated than that, and he knew that languages evolve, and societies, too.

Having just the right term for something can reveal the inherent truth inside that something. We at Stoneslide have teamed up with downsized dictionarypagelexicographers from American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary in order to find the deep truth within the following occupations and affiliations. We’ve created these helpful expressions for you.

We hope you’ll enjoy the increased power and precision in your English usage.

a collision of commuters

a petri dish of schoolchildren

an echinacea tab of schoolteachers

an unfortunateness of poor people

an invisibility of homeless people

a cluster fuck of legislators

a bumbling of bureaucrats

a circle jerk of Republicans

a rim job of Democrats

a drum circle of Green Partiers

a taxi stand of Independents

a ridgeline of Libertarians

a hand job of governors

a blow job of judges

a sucker punch of voters

an ebola scab of lobbyists

a clipboard of coaches

a pharmacopeia of football players

a plug of baseball players

a pancake breakfast of Boy Scouts

a cookie sale of Girl Scouts

a Roman collar of pederasts

a scanty of strippers

a lap dance of Secret Service agents

a shoulder mic of cops

an agony of dentists

a scrub of doctors

a group hug of therapists

a beard of professors

a mendacity of lawyers

a slot of Nevadans

a tree hug of Californians

a handle of Wisconsinites

a pint of Michiganders

a fifth of Yoopers

an accent of Minnesotans

a kindness of Philadelphians

a courtesy of New Yorkers

a traffic jam of New Jerseyites

a Frost of Vermonters

a James of Bostonians

a Joyce of Dubliners

a Yeats of Irishmen

an Allende of Chileans

a perfection of editors

a divinity of writers

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