At an Arepo, Ogun State supermarket on Thursday, I overheard a conversation between a buyer and a cashier. She told the cashier that she had ‘five soaps’, among other items she was paying for. The listener did not have any problem with the expression but I did. With ‘five soaps’, the buyer had made a common mistake by treating ‘soap’ as a countable noun. This is also based on the fact that all the soap she bought was of the same…
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