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Chanj Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Countable Anger

According to dictionaries, 'anger' is uncountable. Yet, I found this:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/heather-mcgill-wife-alabama-sen-shadrack-mcgill-warns-135713172.html
"An Alabama politician's wife who took to Facebook to warn women to stay away from her husband said a righteous anger pushed her to write a post that has now gone viral."

Could it be a writing mistake?
  

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I would say this is an idiom, because we don't say "righteous angers". It's correct as written.

— Vorpar

  • I would say this is an idiom, because we don't say "righteous angers".
  • It's correct as written.
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I would say this is an idiom, because we don't say "righteous angers". It's correct as written.
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chanja righteous anger pushed her to write a post
It's not the anger that's countable, it's the kind of anger that's countable.

One kind of anger; two kinds of anger; three kinds of anger.

One kind of anger is the righteous kind.

The expression is an abbreviated form of "a righteous kind of anger pushed her to write the post".
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