Usage of Water vs Waters

I too have seen it both ways, but I have only ever said water, in the singular. I'm not sure if it's regional variation or generational variation.

in several common phrases uncountable nouns, like water, are used as countable in plural.

he goes out in all weathers.

when do you go on your travels?

the submarine strayed into unexpored waters.

i hope this helped.

inchoate knowledge

you know what they say; still waters run deep.

inchoate knowledge

Thanks inchoate, but this particular use refers to embryotic fluid; both water and waters have been used. But I can't account for the variation.

I don't believe weathers is used in the plural.

I do not want to muddy the waters:) but you can definitely say : Come rain or shine, I go out fishing in all weathers.
There are uncountable nouns which are used as countable plurals: I feel I am on shifting sands, what are your strengths and weaknesses?,
The powers that be decided to cut public spending.
is my punctuation correct in this letter - I do not think so?
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Cambridge exams accept solely the waters version; however, the water form is widely used in US.

I'm not interested in getting into an argument, and I believe I am well acquainted with nouns that can have both countable and uncountable forms.

While I have seen weathers used as a verb ("Let's hope the boat wheather this storm better than she did last time") I have never seen it used in the plural to describe multiple types of weather, outside of your posts. It's possible that it is d

Hi guys,

The phrase 'all weathers' gets 2,260,000 hits in Google. To me, it's a standard and not unusual phrase.

eg He goes for his daily walk in all weathers.

I'm a Canadian from Britain.

Outside this phrase, ie without the word 'all', it's hard to dream up a likely context in which you'd use the noun 'weathers'.

Best wi