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0 Do you call a bottle of prescription the drug/the drugS? 02 br
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01 i 00 Every night before her husband went to bed, he would open a prescription bottle of the muscle relaxant Soma and swallow the eight or nine pills it took for him to fall asleep, said the woman. She spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity because she wants to protect her husband's identity and not embarrass his family. 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 The drugs arrived at their doorstep every week. She thought they were being prescribed by a treating physician. 02 i 02 br
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00 Thanks in advance 0230href http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/21/online.drugs/index.html
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01 i 00 Every night before her husband went to bed, he would open a prescription bottle of the muscle relaxant Soma and swallow the eight or nine pills it took for him to fall asleep, said the woman. She spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity because she wants to protect her husband's identity and not embarrass his family. 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 The drugs arrived at their doorstep every week. She thought they were being prescribed by a treating physician. 02 i 02 br
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0 I'm sorry that my question isn't clear. If you have a bottle of pills, would you use the plural or singular form of the word drug to describe it? 0-
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0 Sorry - it is a bottle of drugs - but it would sound better to say - a bottle containing drugs 0-
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 In a context like this, I'd more naturally use the singular form. 01 i 01 b 00 The drug 02 b 00 01 b 00 arrived at their doorstep every week. She thought it was being prescribed by a treating physician. 02 b 02 i 02 br
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00 Soma is a single drug. 02 br
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00 I'd also consider say
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00 In a context like this, I'd more naturally use the singular form. 01 i 01 b 00 The drug 02 b 00 01 b 00 arrived at their doorstep every week. She thought it was being prescribed by a treating physician. 02 b 02 i 02 br
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00 Soma is a single drug. 02 br
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00 I'd also consider say
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0 Clive, could you please give a context where you would use drugs when it's still a single drug? 02 br
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0 But you can't say - a bottle of drug 02 br
00 You would have to say a bottle containing A/THE drug or a bottle of A/THE drug 02 br
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00 Certainly medication or a bottle of medication would work 0-
00 You would have to say a bottle containing A/THE drug or a bottle of A/THE drug 02 br
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00 Certainly medication or a bottle of medication would work 0-
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0 Optilang, could you help me understand why a bottle of drug/drugs is not recommended? A bottle of something sounds perfectly OK to me and drug/drugs is no exception. 0-
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0 A bottle of drugs is fine 02 br
00 I cannot recall ever having heard a bottle of drug and doesn't seem natural to my ear 0-
00 I cannot recall ever having heard a bottle of drug and doesn't seem natural to my ear 0-
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0 Usually we would say "a bottle of pills" (or tablets, capsules, etc.). 0-
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0 Do you ever count a single drug like you count pills? Drug is uncountable to me. The only time it's countable is when referring to multiple types of drugs just like coffee. What do you think? 0-
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