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Jan 14, 2013 · Bread is a baked mixture of flour yeast and water. No plural. e.g. Bread is baked every day. A bread is a type of bread. Plural is possible but very rare, e.g. This baker has telve breads on sale: wheat flour, rye flour, mixed grains, etc. A loaf is a single unit of bread, typically 400g. Singular or plural.
Sep 2, 2011 · English - the King's. Sep 2, 2011. #3. If you're referring to bread and butter as two separate things, you need "are". If you mean bread which has butter spread on it, then you need "is". "Bread and butter is delicious with a banana." "Food prices are going up all the time, for example bread and butter are now 20% more expensive than last year."
Nov 20, 2012 · Nov 20, 2012. #10. It is complicated because while Mack is correct that normally bread is uncountable, there are times when the word is used as a countable noun, and as MikeLynn mentions, that's when the intended meaning is "kinds of," "types of" or "varieties of" - in this case "kinds of bread." "She makes the most delicious breads," therefore ...
Aug 21, 2006 · I suppose it is a bit trite, but things you can easily count are countable. So from your list, onions and cabbages clearly are countable. Advice is clearly uncountable. Bread and hair can be either depending on context. They are often uncountable, but the different breads in the specialist shop are countable and the hairs the cat leaves on the ...
Jul 30, 2024 · Albi. french France. Aug 2, 2024. #7. "Let's Get This Bread" is a slang expression for earning money. Online, people use the expression ironically, mocking sincere desires to earn lots of money and work hard. US informal (also let's get the bread) used to encourage someone to try hard and be successful: Wake up everyone - let's get this bread!
Sep 27, 2024 · I was in the USA midwest around the same time (I'm just a couple years younger than you, S1m0n) and people still said it, sometimes, then. "Dough" more often than "bread" but both were used, kind of interchangeably. The usage seems to originate in rhyming slang, "bread and honey" -> "money" rather than with hippies necessarily? Or is that an ...
Dec 23, 2005 · Dec 23, 2005. #14. JLanguage said: I've always called the first slice of bread an "end piece", but this term also applies to the last slice of bread. Good point - first slice, last slice - both are heels. The OED, strangely (to me), suggests that the heel of a loaf of bread is the top or bottom crust, not either end.
Aug 2, 2011 · small pieces of toasted bread (salad ingredient) Thread starter dec-sev; Start date Aug 2, 2011; dec-sev Senior Member . Russian Aug 2, 2011 #1 Hell ...
Jul 6, 2018 · Another point may be the meaning we want to give to the sentence. I may be supposed to say: "Don't you want some bread?" when I'm offering bread to someone. On the other hand, Should I say: "Don't you want any bread?" when just asking for confirmation to someone about not wishing bread?
May 24, 2023 · May 24, 2023. #4. "bread and backbone" is not an expression I was familiar with, but a Google search finds it in three other contexts: Leftists who've enough bread and backbone to start a bookstore are close enough to paleo-conservatism to at least engage in ... Always maintain personal high standard of discipline being our daily bread and ...
