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Old 12-Jul-2008, 01:46
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Should fire have an s. fire is uncountable?

I can endure anything, even the fires of hell
I can endure anything, even the fire of hell
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There is a long tradition that we refer to 'the fires of Hell'
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Damnation seems to have a strange effect on singular and plural nouns; we also say that 'the wages of sin is death'.
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