Talk:rum
I have separated the uncountable from the countable senses of 'rum'. Of course, the same distinctions are possible in English for many uncountable nouns: "five wines" means five kinds of wine or five servings of water; "three waters" can mean three kinds of water or three servings of water.
But I think this might be helpful to the non-native speaker. Another way to do this would be to have a usage note.--Macrakis 17:21, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Quotation
[edit]Someone suggested a quotation from Dickens to illustrate the dated expression 'that's a jolly rum thing'. Afaik, this doesn't occur in Dickens (that is, I have read four Dickens books so far and I can't remember having encountered it) and it may well be that this expression became popular only after Dickens. It does, however, occur in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited, which is set in just the right social stratum (upper class youngsters) and just the right era (the Interbellum). Caesarion (talk) 16:42, 27 October 2013 (UTC)