Terminology: Count/noncount or countable/uncountable?

A question about terminology and nouns was raised in another thread: "Which terms are the most frequent ones? Countable nouns or count nouns? Uncountable nouns or noncount nouns?"

I've passed this question on to my colleague Emily Brewster, one of the editors who worked on Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Here's her response:

I interpreted your single question in two different ways, so I've got two answers for you. I hope that one is the answer you're looking for.

The terminology we've used in the Advanced Learner's--count and noncount--is what we think is the simplest, but other terms are sometimes used to refer to the same things. Count nouns are also (less frequently, if Google is any indicator) called "countable nouns." Noncount nouns are very commonly referred to as "uncountable nouns."

While there are many more count senses of nouns than there are noncount senses of nouns in English, many--if not most--nouns have both count and noncount senses. Based on a sampling of text from the Advanced Learner's Dictionary, it looks like count nouns are about 1.75 times more common than noncount nouns.