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[worksmart]

Do you often use plural after any, and singular after no?

Or plural after both?

Thanks

[Mister Micawber]

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It seems to me that it occurs about equally in all permutations, WS:

I have no problem with this.
I have no problems today.
I haven't any problem with this.
I haven't any problems today.
Do you have any problem with this?
Do you have any problems with this?
Do you have some problem with this?
Do you have some problems with this?
(?) I have some problem with this.
I have some problems with this.

It is more a matter of the speaker's mental process-- is s/he imagining one potential problem or several? The penultimate statement also suggests that problem can verge on the uncountable.
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