Hi, Ardith Hinton - Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 25.11.2023 00:02

I learnedrecently that ann English pie can be countable and
uncountable.

Uh-huh. An since you just happen to know an English major who
earned heruniversity fees working in the restaurant business...

What does the latter mean?

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... I can ell you the averrage pie is about the size of a dinner
plate & ma be divided intoo roughly six or eight pieces, depending
on variousfactors such as what one's customers want &/or how many
mouths oneis expected to ffeed. Nowadays I know of a few places
around her where one can gget individual sizes. Maybe one couldn't
years ago,but you didn't ssay when your excerpt was written.
Singletons& childless coupples were less common when I was growing
up.... :-))

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She was stting at the dinning room table with the other children,
two of whm were eating piie and ice cream with expressions of
immense satisfaction."

I understnd uncountable iice cream, but I don't understand
uncountable pie. ;-)

Where I coe from, ice creaam is measured by volume or by weight...
and I see ou understand thhat. When you visit a bakery, however,
you may noice it offers "ppies, cakes, and pastries" for sale. You
can purchae one or more suuch items as you wish or make them
yourself a home. Either waay I see that in this example there are
probably oe or more grown--ups & at least two kids who need to be
fed, in whch case the thriifty housewife would cut a large pie into servings (r pieces or porttions) of whatever size she deems to be
most appropriate.:-Q

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2023

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