Why is it that the plural of beer is beers, but deer is both plural and singular?

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• Not necessarily. When you are ordering do you ask for a couple of beer or a couple of beers?

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  by davoomac on August 9th, 2006

• What is the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?
  
  Beer nuts are about $1.29 a pound
  Deer nuts are usually under a buck!

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  by tjatherton on August 9th, 2006

• How about when you say:
  "There are two beers left in the fridge."
  but you say:
  "There are two deer left in the field."

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  by dieselfool on August 9th, 2006

• A case of beer, some beer, a lot of beer...Some coffee, a lot of coffee...I had a coffee, I had two coffees. I had a beer, I had two beers. When you count individual units of it, you pluralize it with an "s"... there is beer the substance (some beer) and then there is beer the individual bottle or can (a beer, two or more beers). I understand that using beer as a plural for individual bottles or cans is a Canadianism (or at least, typically Canadian) and I think that this usage stems from the similarity of "beer" to "deer"

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  by Bernie-Roy on April 23rd, 2010