Question: After reading ["Is *everyone*" singular or plural?"](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/225/is-everyone-singular-or-plural), I would refrain from asking this question, but the husband of a colleague of mine (English professor, native speaker of British English) stated against it, so I am looking for further enlightenment.

He advocates *some* should be solely used to refer to plural forms. Thus,

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> some non-existent towns
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is perfectly correct, but

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> some non-existent town
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should be replaced by 

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> a non-existent town
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Is that true?

Answer: 
***Some*** indeed can be use in this general sense.

If you visit [OneLook](http://www.onelook.com/?w=some&ls=a), you'll see several meanings of the word ***some***. One of them reads:

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> **some** *used for referring to a person or thing without knowing or without saying exactly which one*
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So, saying:

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> *We'll go to some beach tomorrow.*
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> *We'll stop at some restaurant on the way home.*
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are both perfectly acceptable. As a matter of fact, if you made the noun plural:

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> *We'll stop at some restaurants on the way home.*
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That would imply that we are stopping at *more than one* restaurant.
*[Some](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/some_1)* is used to refer to a particular person or thing without stating which. For example,

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> **Some** customer called yesterday.
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