Grits: singular or plural?
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Wed Jul 3 14:18:39 UTC 2002
- Jim Landau writes:
>For Lois McMaster Bujold fans, "groats" is also a mass noun. According to
>MWCD10, groats are ground coarser than grits and are not necessarily from
>hominy.
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I think "groats" usually refers to hulled, but not ground, grains, as in
buckwheat groats or oat groats.
I sometimes wonder about the countability of "grounds," when I get one
particle of ground coffee caught in a tooth!
A. Murie
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