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'Scofflaw' and Inventing Words for Money

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Mustache. It's a Mass Noun.

In modern English, I'm used to hearing whiskers as what we call a count noun. It has a singular form. And mustache would be kind of a non-count. Well, I guess you could have plural mustaches on several faces. But with mustache, it's strange that it doesn't seem to have the idea of its own singular unit. Right? There are two different senses here, I think.

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