Comments on: A Question of Sausage

By: Alin M

Alin M — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:13:44 +0000

Words like that are called “uncountable nouns” — or at least that’s what they told me when I was learning English. Food, fruit and money are in the same category. What I find interesting is that here in the US one can hear “foods” or “fruits” but never “monies.” Why is that? Money is actually “more” countable than food and fruit

By: soldinio

soldinio — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:00:32 +0000

The plural of a sausage is two sausages.
The plural of sausage, is sausage meats

But what is the plural of “chaos” ?

By: Chrissy T

Chrissy T — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:26:48 +0000

The following could also work:

Last night, I had 4 minges with my sausage. I couldâ€™ve eaten another minge, but then I would have eaten A LOT of minge.

Completely hypothetical of course. Isn’t minge a funny word?!

By: Hayo Bethlehem

Hayo Bethlehem — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:20:23 +0000

I’m now hungry.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:20:24 +0000

@ Hayo: Good call… Oh wait, but the same couldn’t be said if you substitute “sausage” with something else; like “apple” for instance:

Last night, I had 4 apples with my mash. I couldâ€™ve eaten another apple, but then I would have eaten A LOT of apple.

It still works — grammatically and culinarily (that isn’t a word, is it?)…

By: Hayo Bethlehem

Hayo Bethlehem — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:51:18 +0000

“sausage” seems to be the container reference to the goo inside the skin. So in that sense, i guess sausage and sausages are both correct; sausage referring to a heap of goo, and sausages more referring to the type of container.