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Wed 23 Nov, 2016 09:59 am
'Scenery' is non-count in British English, but countable in American English. (Scenery -- Sceneries).
Is this true? Thanks.
According to the Cambridge and Oxford Dictionaries, it's true.
Headline in the British Daily Mail 5th September 2015
Heaven on our doorstep: The most spectacular sceneries in Britain that have inspired generations of poets and authors (including JK Rowling)
The misplaced capital after the colon does not inspire confidence. (In British English, the first letter after the colon is only capitalized if it’s a proper noun or an acronym; in American English, the convention depends on the format but it’s frequently capitalized). Maybe the DM is surrendering to American English?
I must say as a BrE speaker that the only meaning I commonly associate with the word "sceneries" is "stage structures, etc, used to represent a location in a theatre or studio".