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Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?

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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2013, 10:28:30 PM »
I can pull a single noodle out of a package of noodles.

How about grits?  What does a single "grit" look like?
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2013, 11:27:27 PM »
For some nouns the singular is the same as the plural and some nouns don't have a plural, (advice).  I'd like to have two Mao(s) for every time I've read the word "advices".
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2013, 01:10:27 AM »
or many money
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2013, 04:11:20 AM »
Yeah but there's seemingly no rhyme nor reason to it.

10 strands of spaghetti
10 pieces of pasta
10 grains of rice

BUT

10 noodles
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2013, 04:28:27 AM »
As Paul Giamatti said in the movie "Winchell",   "English is a big, ugly beast."
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2013, 02:43:27 PM »
I always told my students "English is a silly language."
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Re: Grammar: Noodles or Noodle?
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2013, 06:03:27 PM »
Quote from: Escaped Lunatic on May 14, 2013, 02:43:27 PM
I always told my students "English is a silly language."


what do you expect from a language which was the result of Norman men at arms trying to make dates with Anglo-Saxon barmaids.
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