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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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melannen
2007-09-14 06:40 pm UTC (link)

I would say that 'lettuce' is often a collective noun, kind of like 'people.'

So you would say "Many people eat lettuce", but it can be pluraled when you're talking about several different groups of lettuce: "Different peoples around the world eat different lettuces," which I think is what tytal was getting at.

I would say, though, that as the subject of a preposition, lettuce would always be non-plural: "Some nations of people eat other kinds of lettuce"; but I'm not a tech writer like tytal, *or* drunk, so what do I know? :D

(Lettuce, of course, is also used non-collectively as a synonym for "head of lettuce", in which case it's a countable noun: "Get the lettuces off the truck, this person wants to buy a lettuce.")

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