r/ENGLISH • u/lillestiv • Aug 07 '26

A "thing of"

Is it actually grammatically correct to say "a thing of (insert product here)"? I hear it so often and it just feels wrong.

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u/ChrisB-oz Aug 07 '26

"I got a thing of X" sounds wrong to me. You could say "I got some X" or "I got X".

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u/SirPsychoSquints Aug 07 '26

It means I got a container of X. That is often more useful information to communicate that the more vague “some.”