Okra as a count noun

[Mark Mandel]

I've certainly seen/heard "cabbages" -- though not "lettuces", possibly
b/c/o the sequence of sibilants.

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

> >>
> >> Waiting to be seen in the Eye Clinic at Duke U, I overheard another =
> >> patient telling his companion that he had been given a "bag of okras".
>  =
> >> He referred to "okras" a couple of more times, sort of the way you'd =
> >> refer to apples or tomatoes.
> >>
> >>  70ish African American male, probably from NC. =20
> >>
> >> I hadn't heard okra pluralized that way before.
> --
>
> Countable "okra" is in DARE, from NC, GA, FL, LA.
>
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