 Bunt (1985) discussed the reverse operation(s): (+MASS/-COUNT -&gt; -MASS/+COUNT), which comes in two varieties. The first is the ‘Universal Sorter’, which sorts into kinds, such as with ‘Voodoo Brewery sells six beers.’ The second is the ‘Universal Packager’ (Pelletier 1975), which puts masses into portions, as with ‘we’ll have six beers,’ or ‘there are four butters in the package.’ (Granted, there is a change in sense in these cases, but, as addressed below, this doesn’t undermine the notion that these nouns are polysemous, and so also does not undermine the point of interchangeability without a lexical switch). We can refer to any stuff (be it packaged, atomistic, or neither) in a particular way.