Peeve emergence: The case of “vinyls”

“This is a lovely peevological case study. In the first place, of course, the “rule” is a doubtful one at best. Vinyl is a mass noun, like beer or cheese or glass, and as such, it doesn’t have a plural. Not having a plural is basically what being a “mass noun” means — a mass noun refers to stuff that comes in variable but conceptually undifferentiated quantities that are measured rather than counted.”

Calm down everyone, it’s not wrong, not matter how badly you’d like to be right.

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