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Re:Apostrophe Protection Society by tuatoru on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:39AM (#38320112)
That's not a nitpick; that's agreement.

Less water, fewer onions.

Edit: not every word ending in "s" is plural. Some of them were just stolen from other languages and ended up with a final "s".

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Re:Apostrophe Protection Society by Skeime on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:09AM (#38330345)
You said in your post that mass nouns are “inherently plural”, which grammatically they are not. I suppose you were referring to the meanings of those words, though.
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