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# GCSE English lols
I got a 'B' twenty years ago. WTF!

I think they're both wrong, because they're both relating to plurals...
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 12:34, archived)
# I thought that less was to do with the size or extent of something
and fewer was the number... that's what was beaten into me by my mother when I was younger... now when I see the "10 items or less" line in Tesco I feel like I'm about to be walloped.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 12:37, archived)
# I think you're right, and I think your mother explained it better than these people...
www.gcse.com/english/less.htm
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 12:40, archived)
# No, you're fine
fewer is for countable quantities, less is for uncountable ones, like an amount of water.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 13:40, archived)
# Thanks for the support
but you should have been here before I changed it
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 14:48, archived)