It's that time of year when my children enter a new school year. In the case of one of them, it's a new school, too, as she enters year 7 and so secondary school.
The school uses an app called Bromcom, named after the genre of male romantic comedy films for reasons that escape me.
In the homework section of the app, parents and children can keep an eye on any homework assignments set. Since we're just in the first few days of school, my daughter has not received any homework yet, and the app says "No homeworks found!"
Using homework as a countable noun grates with me. I'm sure there's an element of me railing against new usages, but the uncountable status of homework is well-attested in dictionaries. Here's the Cambridge dictionary's guide to countable and uncountable nouns, where they explicitly use homework as one of the examples of a uncountable noun:
Other common uncountable nouns include: accommodation, baggage, homework, knowledge, money, permission, research, traffic, travel.
These nouns are not used with a/an or numbers and are not used in the plural.
In my quick internet search, there seemed complete consensus on this from a whole range of sources.
Oh well, here's a recent picture of me reacting to these kind of usages:
This is rather grating! Perhaps when homework arrives it will switch back to the singular noun?
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