Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 16, 2004, 5:39 |
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Philippe Caquant wrote:
> Yes, about peas, there seems to be little logic there.
Actually, in my opinion, it's *corn* that has little logic. Corn seems
to me to be more logically a count noun than a mass noun, yet English
considers it mass.
On the other hand, I have caught myself treating "noodles" as a mass
noun on a couple of occasions.
It's been argued that mass-count in English is a gender distinction, and
to an extent, I agree.
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