Timeline for Is "evidence" countable?
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| Feb 26, 2021 at 1:25 | comment | added | Ricardo | Very well written question and you showed many evidences that there may not be a consensus on the final answer or that it may change through time to be less restrictive. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 15:11 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 15:24 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:56 | answer | added | Paul Daniel Golban | timeline score: -3 | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 16:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 31, 2014 at 16:30 | comment | added | Kris | This question is based on a miconception. | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 16:00 | comment | added | Kris | The Q. is based on a misconception. Google for any "mass" noun in the plural form. Don't presume they all incorrect. They are grammatical in the semantic context when used correctly. Not every such noun has use for its plural, but that's another matter. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 4:55 | answer | added | user3847 | timeline score: -4 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 18:28 | answer | added | Erik Kowal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 18:04 | vote | accept | terdon | ||
| Jul 9, 2013 at 14:50 | comment | added | rhetorician | @terdon: Now that the "powers that be" have expunged our little exchange, I notice your posting has toned down a bit. I'm sorry for both of us in light of the expunging, but perhaps it's for the best. I point out, by the way, that although the term "fundamentalist" has come to have pejorative connotations, as anthropologist Wm. O. Beeman observed, "it serves a useful purpose as a characterization of a repeatedly occurring and nearly universal human social phenomenon." Moreover, Lionel Caplan has noted: "We are all of us, to some degree and in some senses, fundamentalists." | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 12:20 | comment | added | TrevorD | No idea at all! I didn't look further. I posted it just FWIW. My guess was that it's merely that there are more people (native or not) writing more publications. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | terdon | @TrevorD any idea what data they use for that graph? I would guess it is technical documents written by non natives that are creating the trend. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:35 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:17 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2013 at 22:49 | comment | added | TrevorD | This page gives a number of quotations (albeit mainly old ones) including the word "evidences". And this one (bottom right-hand corner) tracks its usage over time and shows its frequency as increasing, albeit still very small. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Wiktionary returns a split decision: evidence (usually uncountable; plural evidences) | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 21:32 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2013 at 21:30 | history | edited | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2013 at 20:45 | comment | added | AJMansfield | "Evidences" is also a verb. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 18:47 | answer | added | user19148 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 17:24 | comment | added | ak84 | How about "findings in support of ..."? | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 15:59 | vote | accept | terdon | ||
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| Jul 8, 2013 at 15:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/354256450828238850 | ||
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | terdon | @mplungjan we also have fishes and cheeses, these are special cases to indicate different species of a mass noun. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:41 | answer | added | Andrew Leach♦ | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | mplungjan | We have monies and waters so why not evidences? | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:11 | history | asked | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |