Timeline for How many beans vs How much beans?
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| Nov 6 at 12:30 | comment | added | Stuart F | Looking at COCA, there's one very informal example with "much": "Apparently, he's eating too much beans and weenies ... and not enough lasagna" (is "beans and weenies" a compound noun?) But "many beans" is far more common. "She found that her subjects consumed about six times as many beans a day as Americans", "most Americans don't eat too much spinach or too many beans" "As long as there's not too many beans in it." "the amount spent on buying and transporting one can would buy ten times as many beans in Honduras" | |
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| Mar 11 at 3:25 | comment | added | Lambie | Does this answer your question? Why do we say "I love cake" but "I love cars"? | |
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| Jun 12, 2023 at 22:29 | comment | added | gotube♦ | "How much" is correct. If someone asked me how many beans I wanted, I would consider it a mistake, and answer with a precise number like "24" to point out the question was silly. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 22:10 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @KateBunting - hmmm . . . not sure. As a keen amatuer cook, if I were unsure I would probably ask "how many grams of beans should I cook" or "how many cans of beans". To ask "How many beans" could be the cue for a sarcastic response - "242 should be fine". | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 22:03 | answer | added | Andy Bonner | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 18:18 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd ask How much beans do you want? if I had no choice. But it's not much better than How many..., so I might just sidestep the issue with something uncontentious like Do you want lots of beans? Or How many spoonfuls of beans? (spare me from spoonsful! :) | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 18:17 | comment | added | DoneWithThis. | I agree with @KateBunting on this, but without knowing exactly why it's right. Grammatically [syntactically?] it doesn't make a lot of sense, but you'd never ask "How much beans?" Even though you expect the answer to be in cups or grammes, the answer will never be 432. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 16:43 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | They would ask "How many?", but expect an answer by volume (or possibly weight), not to be told the exact number of beans to cook! | |
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