"If you have any doubt", let me know." "If you have any doubts, let me know."
Both sound correct. Are there any subtle differences in meaning?
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Careful or you’ll come off sounding like an East Indian or a Mexican, both of whom often use doubt where a native speaker would use problem. :) – tchrist Mar 16 '15 at 15:03
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2possible duplicate of Can "doubt" sometimes mean "question"? – FumbleFingers Mar 16 '15 at 16:01
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Doubt can be both a mass noun and a countable noun.
So one can be filled with doubt (mass noun), one can have a a number of doubts about something (count noun), and one can also have just a single doubt about the whole complex process (count noun).
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