• @Tak@lemmy.ml
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    69 months ago

    Support is also a strut.

    But if you’re getting healthcare and unemployment that would be two supports that most Americans don’t get. The plural for support is supports isn’t it?

    • @themusicman@lemmy.world
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      -69 months ago

      That meaning of support is a non-countable noun, like water or happiness (or Lego, but lots of people get that one wrong). There is no plural of non-countable nouns.

      You might use (for example) “bodies of water”, “levels of happiness”, “pieces of Lego”, or “sources of support” etc.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        9 months ago

        Silence, bot, the only thing worse than a pedant is one that isn’t even correct.

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          One thing I’m not loving about going from reddit to lemmy is the amount of pedantry by people stuck somewhere between A and B on this graph.

          Never heard of linguistics or prestige dialects, just go around parroting nitpicks they learned in 7th grade grammar classes.