Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 11.12.2014 16:36   
      
    ak>> I would say: "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cats   
    ak>> or dogs,"   
      
    AH> Maybe, if these people are catching their own food... but most city   
    AH> folks don't pluralize "chicken" or "turkey" or "goose" or "duck"   
    AH> when they are talking about what meat they eat any more than they   
    AH> do with "pork" or "bacon". Occasionally I do hear from a friend   
    AH> who's planning a holiday dinner that s/he isn't sure whether to buy   
    AH> the largest turkey s/he can find or two medium-sized turkeys, and   
    AH> professional chefs may be called upon to make such decisions as a   
    AH> matter of course. The latter, however, don't discuss their work   
    AH> with me.   
      
   OK. Now if I see "I like cat" I know what it means. ;)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2014   
      
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