Okra as a count noun

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Sep 4 16:51:10 UTC 2009


At 9/4/2009 12:08 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>I've certainly seen/heard "cabbages" --

and kings.

I am the Walrus.

Joel

>though not "lettuces", possibly
>b/c/o the sequence of sibilants.

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