COLLECTIVE for DIABETICS

Grazer

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I was reading an article this morning about a "bloat" of hippopotamuses. You also, of course, get a school of Whales, a shoal of fish and a murder of crows. So what would the collective word for a group of diabetics be? Would we be a "suite" of diabetics? Or maybe a needle of diabetics? Or perhaps even a moan of diabetics? What do you think?
 

viviennem

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Type of diabetes
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Other
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Football. Bad manners.
A sweetness of diabetics? with a touch of irony! :wink:

My favourite of these is an unkindness of ravens.

Viv 8)
 

Helenababe

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A 'Multitude' of diabetics.

I was going to be flash and use the Latin word, but multitude translated is 'Turba'.

Helena
 

pianoman

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I was thinking along the lines of the islet cells where insulin in secreted -- or not, as the case may be... and so perhaps an Archipelago of Diabetics?
 

Grazer

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pianoman said:
I was thinking along the lines of the islet cells where insulin in secreted -- or not, as the case may be... and so perhaps an Archipelago of Diabetics?

OOOh, a bit subtle maybe. You'll be saying a "langerhan" of diabetics next.