Question

Who was Mr Iron? What was his contribution in improving Helen's vocabulary and grammar

Answer 1

We have 16 "Mr"s if double-counting is allowed: Apples, Candles, Chimes, Cups, Eaten, Fires, Hearts, Iron, Mirrors, Names, Pages, Sacks, Spices, Stones, Veils, Wines. 
15 if Mr Names is excluded, 13 if a certain dead one are rejected, 11 if two possible "shared accounts" are removed, and 9 if some traded names are ruled out. All of them except Mr Iron and the eaten one have an "s" in their names. Maybe I am a little OCD but Mr Iron always catches my eye when I list the names of the Masters. Consider Fires and Wines, it doesn't seem to be a matter of "countable" versus "uncountable": Mr Iron is the purveyor of more than one sort of iron, I suppose. Or is it simply to avoid the ambiguity of chains?
edited by Fadewalker on 7/30/2016