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