Talk:Episode 1902

This page was assembled from the skeleton data of Mike Brown's Countdown Page, and the recap written by Mauro Pratesi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dumper (talk • contribs) 16:39, 16 November 2007

"NOTE: While it did not affect the outcome of the game, both contestants' offering of NOUGATS in round 1 should have been disallowed, as NOUGAT is given only as a mass noun in the dictionary, and therefore cannot be pluralised, so the final score should have been 47 - 37."

Are you sure about that? Where is the line drawn re consideration of foodstuffs as countable because you can have portions of them? — Stewart (talk) 16:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

In episode Episode 2935, Andy Porter was disallowed NOUGATS as it was a mass noun and could not be pluralised. I had that episode on VHS for several years, and it was definitely refused for that reason. Unless that was a change implemented during the gap between this episode in 1996 and the latter in 2001?

I'm pretty certain the mass noun ruling was introduced along with the Oxford Dictionary of English at the start of Series 43 in June 2000. Mjbrown