Okra as a count noun

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/4/2009 01:07 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>I would use "lettuces" in referring to the half-dozen  or so varieties
>that I used to grow, but not to multiple heads of one variety.

The dead (inanimate) treated the same as the quick -- fish/fishes, etc.?

Joel

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