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    26 days ago

    It’s like fish and sheep. One popcorn, two popcorn, a bag of popcorn.

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      You can’t say “one popcorn” or “two popcorn” because mass nouns aren’t countable. It’s just “popcorn” for any amount of popcorn. Notice I said “amount” and not “number” because, again, popcorn is a mass noun and cannot be enumerated. If you want to enumerate kernals of popcorn, you have to say “kernels of popcorn”.

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        Yes, you can. I just did. Try to stop me.