In Invitations^x, Abstract nouns^x

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

There are only a limited number of abstract nouns for which this pattern applies. From the examples below, you can pretty much guess the kind of noun that is needed. The "of ---ing" phrase forms an appositive to the noun in question. Among the possibilities are "habit", "custom", "tradition",...