Did a google search for "people collective or plural noun" months ago and then did it yesterday and the same quote from THIS same site came stating "People is NOT a collective noun like team or staff. It is a plural noun". So I posted a comment saying that "People" is a collective noun, and every noun that can carry a plural meaning even though that noun is not driven from the singular form is a collective noun. I received a message showing me how my comment would appear if approved and then... you guessed it: My comment was not published.
I also do not know how to take this author's "like team or staff". Does he mean that "People" is a collective noun but different from those in that aspect? If so then he missed to teach us about his theory of classes for collective nouns. Also, if "People" is not a collective noun then that means it cannot be taken as singular, and if so then how about the word "Peoples"? Or maybe the author also has a theory for classes for the plural?
This was just about whether "People" is a collective noun or not; I do not care about the examples he gave.
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