Make Your Editor Cry: Glass (Awkward Plural)
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front)
When referring to the material, glass is a mass noun.When referring to a drinking container, the plural is glasses.
The definition of glass: any of various amorphous materials formed from a melt by cooling to rigidity without crystallization
When referring to the material, glass is a mass noun.
Multi—story buildings are frequently constructed with walls made almost entirely of glass.
In early 17th century England, glass became common in the windows of ordinary homes.
The definition of glass: a drinking container without foot or stem and originally with pointed or convex base
When referring to a drinking container, the plural of glass is glasses.
While we may not need eight glasses a day, there are plenty of reasons to drink water.
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. She drinks right out of the bottle. (Henny Youngman)
Gregg Bridgeman is the Editor-in-Chief at Olivia Kimbrell Press. He is husband to best-selling Christian author Hallee Bridgeman and parent to three. He continues to proudly serve in the US Armed Forces and has done so in either an active or reserve capacity for more than twenty years as an airborne and air assault qualified paratrooper, earning a Bronze Star for his service. Most importantly, he was ordained in October of 2001 after surrendering his life to Christ decades earlier.
