DmitryFarber wrote:
shalini14 , tableware is definitely not countable in this context. As daagh and the article you cited point out, we can pluralize tableware to tablewares, so in that case it might be countable, but that would be if we were discussing more than one kind of tableware (and not just forks and spoons). This will almost never happen! It would have to be something along the lines of "The tablewares of ancient Mesopotamia and modern-day Canada have some surprising similarities."
In any case,
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