Thursday, November 13, 2008

More ST Fluff

Since fluff is an uncountable/uncount/non-count/mass noun, another fluff in the headline is wrong: make it more fluff, perhaps.

Contrast this with the letter writer’s own expression: another piece of fluff. Unlike the ST sub-editor, the writer knows that fluff is uncountable and so needs a partitive, piece.

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