Talk:Letters game

Mass nouns

Does the Scrabble rulebook now have a statement to the effect of "All nouns, even mass nouns, are presumed to have plural forms"? If so, I must have never read the rulebook of a set new enough to list the rule. And it isn't mentioned in the appropriate section of the Wikipedia page.

In the paperwork given to me when I was a contestant, there was some information about the rules of the game, and I've a recollection of "animals" being among the categories of mass nouns that can sometimes become countable. Can anyone give an example of this? OK, some, such as "lamb" and "chicken", can be count or mass depending on whether you're talking about the animal as an organism or the meat, but I'd think in those cases the count noun came first. -- smjg 19:13, 31 August 2010 (BST)

Which came first, the count noun or the egg?

Yeh, I think animals are allowed to be pluralised. Kladdyman 19:21, 31 August 2010 (BST)

Well, obviously, but you miss the point. In what cases are they mass nouns to begin with? -- smjg 19:36, 31 August 2010 (BST)