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Lettuce = Srs Bzns U Guise!
Over at customers_suck, there's a post about a bad customer at a buffet. But forget the usual fat wank, because this time we have lettuce wank when tytal calls out the OP for writing "lettuce" instead of "lettuces."

Of course, tytal's drunk, which may explain things.

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queencallipygos
2007-09-14 02:37 pm UTC (link)

And I've always heard it as singular *and* plural. What does that mean for me?

The semantics may be rendered thus:

The singular for a single piece of lettuce is "lettuce leaf."

"Lettuce" can refer to the general category of "grean leafy crap that comprises the bulk of salads."

But "lettuces" could be used if you are talking about a salad bar and you have a variety of kinds of lettuce -- you've got your romaine, your iceberg, your Boston, your Bibb...they're all lettuce, but they're different kinds of lettuce, hence "lettuces".

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	frequentmouse 2007-09-14 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Also, if you are transplanting lettuce seedlings from the starter medium to alargerflat, then you are "pricking out the lettuces." I know, because Miss Marple says so. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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