On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:40:14 -0500, the infamous Tom Watson
scrawled the following:

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:35:11 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

Tom Watson wrote:
"For example, some, any, none, no, and all can be used as non-count as
well as count..."


Oxford English Grammar, Sidney Greenbaum, Oxford University Press,
1996. p. 192.



Sidney could have told you that, but he's mistaken on "none are",
AFAIC. I don't cotton to "shiney", either. I learned it as "shiny"
and that's how it's spelled, period.


Ah... Naturally I shall, in future, cite you in all matters
grammatical rather than those hosers at the sister publication to the
OED.

Damned straight!

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