We all admit to being a rabble-rouser once in a while, but no one wants to be a part of the rabble. It’s even built into the language. After all, how often do you see the word rabble without the word rouser attached to it? “Not very often at all,” says University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan. Much like some people, there are words that just don’t like to hang out on their lonesome. “Linguists would talk about this as collocates, as words that co-occur,” says Curzan. “And rabble and