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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> I learned recently that an English pie can be countable   
   AK> and uncountable.   
      
   Absolutely.   
      
   AK> I understand uncountable ice cream, but I don't   
   AK> understand uncountable pie. ;-)   
      
   In English, they are the same.  Both `cream' and `pie' can   
   denote the substance, rather than the thing it constitutes.   
   In /Danse Macabre/ Steven Kings quotes an old radio show   
   where the jealous dentist locked an adulterer in his dental   
   chair  and "let out some of lover-boy". Yikes! but   
   uncountable.   
      
   For more pleasant example, heed Rosemary Clooney sing "I will   
   give you candy!" in /Come on a-My House/.   
      
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