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>> A gaggle of leeches? That's a new collective noun :o). Well .. Couldn't find a collective noun for leeches, but
at http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm,
a group of women is described as gaggle (as well as a collection of geese), and
I thought that was pretty apt in the post feminist age. Actually though, according to
dictionary.com, a gaggle is: 2. A cluster or group: A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk
beside a swelling crowd of onlookers (Gioia Diliberto). Geese, feminists, paparazzi .. tax leeches. Yup, I think it's pretty appropriate :) For the armchair etymologists (yes Fatfingers that means you), there is a list of proposed collective nouns at
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/. The site suggests a 'giggle' of girls. I guess the giggle matures into an older, more cynical and embittered 'gaggle' of aging feminists.
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