Think about it:
There is no collective noun or concept for readers corresponding to ‘audience.’ The collective ‘readership’ — this magazine has a readership of two million — is a far-gone abstraction. To think of readers as a united group, we have to fall back on calling them an ‘audience,’ as…
I suggest a “murder” of readers (as in a “murder of crows”) but here is a link to a bunch of collective nouns: http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml that might spur some more appropriate ideas.
A kindle of readers (from a kindle of kittens) might be a little too proprietary.
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I suggest a “murder”...crows”) but here is a link
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I have to be honest - as far as umbrella-termed collective nouns go, I think “readers”
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markcoatney said:
A Library of Readers? A ‘Shhhhsshhh!’ of Readers? A Poindexter of Readers?
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melissa reblogged this from irisblasi and added:
Iris Blasi asks:
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