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Old Jul 28th 2008, 9:55 pm
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what is the collective noun for a group expats in France?

A notoomany of expats?
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Old Jul 28th 2008, 11:46 pm
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what is the collective noun for a group expats in France?

A notoomany of expats?
Le Chant came up with a good one at the meet up the other week - but can't remember what it was
Cloud, storm, something like that - must have been the red wine
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Old Jul 29th 2008, 3:21 am
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Might depend where in France and how many there are. In Eymet for example, they would probably be:

A plague of expats (as in locusts)

A more generic term could be a "houdini" of expats

Or even the rather boring "escapism" of expats

I know what the collective noun for people like me are, who flipping well came back here:

An "idiot" of ex ex pats
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what is the collective noun for a group expats in France?

A notoomany of expats?


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Le Chant came up with a good one at the meet up the other week - but can't remember what it was
Cloud, storm, something like that - must have been the red wine
It was a Cloud of Brits, the thinking being that it always rains at britexpat meetups. But he was sooo wrong.

Hi all. This is one of those rare online moments for me at the mo. Everything is peachy in Isigny ... MIL/FIL arrived from UK a week ago and my SIL:BIL arrived for breakfast off the Cherbourg ferry this morning.

We`re almost exactly half way through our stay here and the house is taking shape (slowly, thanks to far too many bottles of Chateau Val de Carentan Grand Cru).

I'll be back on here with a vengence in a few weeks when I go to Germany, but until then take care all.

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Lovely to hear from you Novo, glad the house is coming along. Have a wonderful time with all your family, say hi to OH from us
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Lovely to hear from you Novo, glad the house is coming along. Have a wonderful time with all your family, say hi to OH from us
Great to hear from you and to know all is going well
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Or even a "deluge" of Britexpats then?
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A shelter of expats?
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Way I feel right now it should be a Padded Room of one ambitious ex ex pat:curse:
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Way I feel right now it should be a Padded Room of one ambitious ex ex pat:curse:
schizophrenia is hard to live with isn't it?
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schizophrenia is hard to live with isn't it?
depends who's dominant at the time
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I've got it however:

a change of expats

that's it.

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that's it.

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