is the army countable or uncountable...it depends on your point of view. It took me a long time to get rid of my regional accent when I first began teaching. This was embarassingly brought to my attention when one of my students said at the end of the lesson ..."teacher why are people always dying when you speak?" "Huh?"sez I..."yester-die, mon-die" . Yu cuduh knocked me doun wiv a feather, as my old gran used to say. I originally come from bedfordshire in the south east of england and we have some perculiar ways of saying things down there.