| 21. | James Herbert Lorrain, an English missionary, makes no mention of the collective noun'Lai'in his Lushai-English Dictionary.
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| 22. | Generally, collective nouns are not mass nouns, but rather are a special subset of count nouns.
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| 23. | But isn't " electronic mail " _ like " mail " itself _ a collective noun?
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| 24. | Treating his choices of collective noun as a Freudian slip would support this point of view.
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| 25. | While Manyang ( ManyaK ) is a loose singular term for Bayang, it is a collective noun.
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| 26. | :English plural says " people " can be a singular noun ( see also Collective noun ).
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| 27. | The collective noun for a group of Wikipedia editors seems to be " page of wikipedians ".
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| 28. | :I'd have thought that you can only use a collective noun for things that are close together?
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| 29. | I dug out the dictionary and and noted some age all collective nouns we could apply to ourselves.
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| 30. | He also again shows a misunderstanding of my definition of " mythology " as being a collective noun.
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