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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Casing-covers


This is wax casing for babybel cheese. If you used the word cover, which is countable, and as the picture presents the casing has been separated into two, would counting the casing be correct: these are covers?

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onizo these are covers? No. There's only one casing and it's been divided into two halves.

— CalifJim

  • onizo these are covers?
  • No.
  • There's only one casing and it's been divided into two halves.
  • You have two half-casings, I suppose.
  • I wouldn't use the word "cover" for this.
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onizothese are covers?
No. There's only one casing and it's been divided into two halves. You have two half-casings, I suppose. I wouldn't use the word "cover" for this.

CJ
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Casing can be countable.
The police found five bullet casings at the scene of the crime.
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