On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Beverly Flanigan wrote: #The only time I hear it as countable is from non-native speakers #(understandably); they also say "informations," among other mass-to-count #nouns. <raises hand> "Born In the U.S.A.", and I use "research" as count, as well as mass. But "informations" is * for me. -- Mark A. Mandel Linguist at Large