Dear Jim,

thanks for the information. I am unfamiliar with Pali grammar now. I
plan to get to it in the future, but first I would like to go through
Warder's Introduction in Pali before considering the Pali.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Jim Anderson wrote:

There are also some good explanations of the uses of the singular
(ekavacana) and plural (bahuvacana) in the 2nd pariccheda of the
Saddaniiti (Part I: Padamaalaa) with an interesting technical list of
five kinds of singulars and fifteen kinds of plurals. The collective
noun in the singular comes under "samudaayaapekkhekavacana.m".