In Nouns^x, British English^x, Possessives^x

Recall that * means ungrammatical. _____ one is always countable. *coarse sand and fine one; *white sugar and brown one; *fresh milk and spoiled one; *British English and American one; *good knowledge and bad one But (countable): a happy child and a sad one; happy children...

From answers.com : Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving ) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone ). These forms...

"My family is spending its vacation in the east." I know that here is a difference between American and British English, as "family" is understood either as a collective noun, seen as 'ONE group', so verbs and possessive pronouns occur in singular: "My family is spending ITS vacation in the...